The lasting negative impacts of tourism have for a long time taken backstage thanks to the quest for money. As *Roberto Savio, puts it there is a price to pay for all this so the earlier some brakes were...
Was the global stock market sell-off a couple of weeks ago, only a “correction” or does it signify a new period of financial instability, caused by major flaws in the world financial system, asks *Martin Khor. The stock market...
The tobacco industry claims that tobacco- growing is essential to the livelihoods of millions of small-scale rural farmers in Malawi, Zambia and Kenya. Research shows that’s untrue, *Ronald Labonte, Donald Makoka, Jeffrey Drope and Raphael Lencucha point out “We...
A handful of corporate giants control the global food and drink market. In his latest book, Thomas Kruchem calls this kind of multinationals “Big Food” and argues that they are actually making people sick even though they claim to...
Tax havens are the spider in the web of tax avoidance, and the international community has officially declared to fight them. However, a coherent and effective policy on tax havens is still a long way off writes *Tobias Hauschild....