04 September, 2009
Luanda é um luxo para os poucos
Debates e Devaneios
Estive em Luanda no final da semana passada eo que vi foi um estado policial e muita miséria.
Estive em Luanda no final da semana passada eo que vi foi um estado policial e muita miséria.
Angola, terra de dinossauros
BBC, Angola, terra do petróleo e dos diamantes, é também um país extremamente rico em vestígios paleontológicos.
A critique of the Stiglitz report The limits of liberal orthodoxy
Pambazuka, Samir Amin
Stiglitz’s analysis presents the current crisis as ‘short-term, provoked largely by excesses in credit expansion and suggests that rapid recovery is possible’ says Amin, ignoring the fundamental question of whether growth “set in motion by finance” is a viable form or whether it is a response to a crisis of accumulation. ‘Autonomous decision-making for the countries of the South’ is what is needed, Amin argues, rather than a “top-down solution” that restores the global domination of oligopolies and the ‘United States hegemony’.
Stiglitz’s analysis presents the current crisis as ‘short-term, provoked largely by excesses in credit expansion and suggests that rapid recovery is possible’ says Amin, ignoring the fundamental question of whether growth “set in motion by finance” is a viable form or whether it is a response to a crisis of accumulation. ‘Autonomous decision-making for the countries of the South’ is what is needed, Amin argues, rather than a “top-down solution” that restores the global domination of oligopolies and the ‘United States hegemony’.
Pambazuka News 446: Joseph Stiglitz and the limits of liberal orthodoxy
Highlights from this issue
We open our first issue of Pambazuka News after the break with an article by Samir Amin, arguing that proposals in a UN report on reforms to the international monetary and financial systems sideline the South and ignore the fundamental structural problems that caused the economic crisis.
Meanwhile, Olivier De Schutter talks about Africa and the global food crisis, Abahlali baseMjondolo’s S’bu Zikode discusses the barriers that prevent meaningful engagement between the government and people, Nigel C. Gibson considers Fanonian practices in post-apartheid South Africa and Silvestro Montanaro brings us fresh allegations around the assassination of the former president of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara.
Elsewhere, Lansana Gberie says it's time for ECOWAS to intervene in the Guinea–Sierra Leone border dispute and Sehlare Makgetlaneng explains why hopes that Obama will change the nature of America’s relationship with Africa are unfounded.
We open our first issue of Pambazuka News after the break with an article by Samir Amin, arguing that proposals in a UN report on reforms to the international monetary and financial systems sideline the South and ignore the fundamental structural problems that caused the economic crisis.
Meanwhile, Olivier De Schutter talks about Africa and the global food crisis, Abahlali baseMjondolo’s S’bu Zikode discusses the barriers that prevent meaningful engagement between the government and people, Nigel C. Gibson considers Fanonian practices in post-apartheid South Africa and Silvestro Montanaro brings us fresh allegations around the assassination of the former president of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara.
Elsewhere, Lansana Gberie says it's time for ECOWAS to intervene in the Guinea–Sierra Leone border dispute and Sehlare Makgetlaneng explains why hopes that Obama will change the nature of America’s relationship with Africa are unfounded.
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