Gerald Epstein
Part of a Triple Crisis series leading up to the Nov. 11-12 G-20 meetings.
Triple Crisis blogger Gerald Epstein was interviewed by the Real News Network on the recent focus on China’s monetary policy in US politics and media. He asks whether this currency war is a diversion from the real problems facing US economy.
James Boyce
Triple Crisis blogger James Boyce was interviewed by the Real News Network on the implications of tomorrow’s US midterm elections for progress in addressing climate change.
In an interview with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), GDAE’s Timothy Wise discusses the implications of U.S. agricultural dumping in Mexico. Wise’s comments are based on his paper on agricultural dumping under NAFTA, which is part of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ current project on Mexican agricultural policies, “Subsidizing Inequality“, now available in Spanish and in English in late 2010. For more on this project, see Wise’s latest Triple Crisis piece on agricultural dumping and his recent op-eds in El Universal and La Jornada.
Mark Blyth, faculty fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, illustrates the flawed logic behind public austerity measures governments are adopting in the wake of the financial crisis and the consequences such measures would have on the poor. Blyth will be joining Triple Crisis as a regular contributor later this month.
Timothy A. Wise sat down with Triple Crisis blogger Mehdi Shafaeddin of the Institute of Economic Research at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, to discuss the political and economic challenges the Least Developed Countries (LDCs)are facing in the wake of the global economic crisis. Based on his South Centre report , Shafaeddin explains the potential negative impact of Europe’s Economic Partnership Agreements on LDCs’ policy space to respond to the crisis.
In its Economic Partnership Agreements with ACP countries, the EU has pushed for African countries to significantly reduce tariffs in return for having access to the EU market. In an interview with Triple Crisis blogger Timothy A. Wise, Aileen Kwa of the South Centre discusses the dangers of the EPAs for African economies and offers possible solutions.
For background and more on the issue, see:
EPAs: The Wrong Development Model for Africa And Options for the Future
Need for Africa to Re-think the EPAs in Light of the Economic Crisis
Legal Analysis of Services and Investment in the Cariforum-EC EPA: Lessons for other Developing Countries
In its Economic Partnership Agreements with ACP countries, the EU has pushed for African countries to significantly reduce tariffs in return for having access to the EU market. In an interview with Triple Crisis blogger Timothy A. Wise, Aileen Kwa of the South Centre discusses the dangers of the EPAs for African economies and offers possible solutions.
For background and more on the issue, see:
EPAs: The Wrong Development Model for Africa And Options for the Future
Need for Africa to Re-think the EPAs in Light of the Economic Crisis
Legal Analysis of Services and Investment in the Cariforum-EC EPA: Lessons for other Developing Countries
Triple Crisis blogger James K. Boyce discusses the concept of social wealth:
In a recent featured interview on the Real News Network, Triple Crisis blogger Gerald Epstein discussed the financial reform bill and the Goldman Sachs settlement with the SEC.
In the Western press the conventional wisdom holds that China is emerging as a new colonial power in Africa. American University professor Deborah Brautigam has written a provacative new book, “The Dragon’s Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa,” that challenges that view. Indeed, Brautigam contends that China’s “idea” of development may in the end prevail over the often fadish Western approaches to aid and development in Africa. Triple Crisis blogger Kevin P. Gallagher interviewed professor Brautigam on China’s role in Africa.