Yes, There is An Alternative
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A ‘Letter’ From Rice Farmers
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Detroit’s Unsustainable Casino Economy
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Ghosts Threaten to Return to Haiti
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Sweatshops Won’t Save Haiti
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Avatar’s History Lesson
The blockbuster film’s storyline is far from original.
Will Cash Cool the Planet?
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Cities Can Save the Earth
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Abolition Follies
The risk of proliferation has made abolitionists out of the sternest of Cold Warriors.
Capitalist Pigs
The term “money laundering” suggests that the more often dirty money changes hands, the cleaner it gets but globalization just moves the dirt around.
100-Day Dash
After 100 days, the glass is now definitely more than half full. But we’re still a long way off from a fundamentally new relationship between America and the world.
Towards an Economic System that Works for People and the Planet
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How Badly Can the ‘Experts’ Ruin the Planet?
Look no further than the World Bank to see how many economic, social, and environmental problems so-called experts can make worse.
Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development: Lessons from the Americas
Sarah Anderson, Director of IPS Global Economy Project, will be among the speakers discussing a new report: “Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development: Lessons from the Americas” at this event sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
Other speakers will include:
Eduardo Zepeda, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Liane Schalatek, Heinrich Böll Foundation
Kevin Gallagher, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Boston University, Research Associate, Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University
Andres Lopez, Director of the Centro de Investigaciones para la Transformación, and Professor of Economics, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Eva Paus, Professor of Economics and the Carol Hoffmann Collins Director of the McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives at Mount Holyoke College
Nicola Borregaard, Director of the National Energy Efficiency Program for the Government of Chile and advisor to the Chilean Minister of Economy
Maryse Robert is chief of the Trade Section in the Department of Trade and Tourism at the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS)
For a copy of the report and background papers see:
http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/WorkingGroup_FDI.htm
Please RSVP to Evelina Yeghiyan at EYeghiyan@CarnegieEndowment.org by noon on Wednesday, June 18.
Global Green Jobs
Advocates for Green Jobs have been mostly long on enthusiasm and short on specifics. This piece fills in some key blanks.