Posts Tagged: financial flows
With Asian countries investing heavily in a diverse portfolio of African interests, why is the United States still only focused on the continent's oil?
Money is illegally flowing out of Africa. Here's how to fix the problem.
Beijing is rapidly expanding its influence in the Middle East. Will Washington do anything more than watch?
The club of the richest countries in the world is about to invite Israel to join. But does it really meet the political requirements?
Bribery and sweetheart deals are a curse for democracy and civil society. But as columnist Walden Bello explains, corruption is not the principal cause of global poverty.
Matt Ryan, the mayor of Binghamton, New York, is sick and tired of watching people in local communities "squabble over crumbs," as he puts it, while so much local money pours into the Pentagon's coffers and into America's wars.
While Ghana's mining industry has historically been characterised by a lack of transparency and the dominance of foreign multinational interests, Dake stresses that the burgeoning oil industry must not be allowed to go the same way.
Respecting human dignity is a principle no government can ignore, and one that needs to be applied when sending aid to the earthquake-ravaged nation.
What does it mean for the global economy when even a city of oil-rich opulence can't escape the recession?
Migrant workers form the fifth largest country in the world and produce profits equal to the third largest corporation. They should be at the center of any reform of the global economy.