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Issue
no. 224 (April 2009)
COVER:
The G20 Summit : After the hype, a big letdown
Reality
behind the hype of the G20 summit
The new ‘global plan for recovery’ offers little
for the economy and the poor.
BY MARTIN KHOR
The
G20 summit: How not to rule the world
Few signs indicate that the major players in the
world economy will act together to revive it.
BY JAYATI GHOSH
The
US, the EU and China at the G20 summit
The main proposals and recommendations of the US,
EU and China reflect their differing concerns.
BY T RAJAMOORTHY
Development-blind
G20 outcome empowers an unreformed IMF
Capital replenishment for the IMF and World Bank
has come without the reforms demanded of them.
BY BHUMIKA MUCHHALA
Taxing
matters: The G20 and offshore tax havens
Tax havens are enabling the massive loss of domestic
resources from developing countries.
BY PETER GILLESPIE
Yuan’s
role presents dilemma for Chinese policymakers
Is China pushing for the yuan to replace the US dollar
as the international reserve currency?
BY LIU JIE and ZHANG CHONGFANG
G20
summit – some civil society reactions
Civil society groups are deeply concerned about the
summit’s outcome.
BY KANAGA RAJA
Stiglitz
panel calls for sweeping reforms of financial system
A high-level commission of experts recommends wide-ranging
reforms.
BY KANAGA RAJA
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ECOLOGY
Nuclear nightmare
Indigenous communities such as the Canadian Inuits
will bear a considerable part of any nuclear renaissance’s ill-effects.
BY MARK DOWIE
WORLD AFFAIRS
Thailand trapped
by rival oligarchies
A bitter feud between two rival factions of the country’s elite
continues to wreck Thailand.
BY TOM FAWTHROP
Bouteflika’s
triumph and Algeria’s tragedy
The past and future rule of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is a
tragic, complex story.
BY JACOB MUNDY
ACTIONS & ALTERNATIVES
Mercosur’s cooperatives
in an age of integration
The unity of and support between cooperatives across the Southern
Cone region reflect a new attempt to develop alternatives.
BY MICHAEL FOX
TRIBUTE
VG Kiernan (1913-2009):
Historian in the battle against Empire
VG Kiernan’s unrelenting exposure of imperialism had the power to
inspire resistance.
BY JOHN TRUMPBOUR
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