Despite the apparent variety of brands on supermarket shelves, much of the food and drink we consume every day is controlled by a small group of large multinationals. According to an analysis made [...]
In your most recent book, Power and Progress, you mention that we are at a critical moment regarding the relationship between technology, equality and democracy. What consequences do you foresee if [...]
The economic gerontocracy is in control of the planet. The numbers sparkle like diamonds in a jeweller's window. The infinitely cited BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), [...]
Perhaps the great problem of an open society is that few people want to live in an open society. It is difficult to come to a different conclusion in view of contemporary political reality: liberal [...]
In Latin America, a criminal or mafia capitalism is expanding geometrically, in whose practices the differences between formality, informality and crime are dissolving, as the Peruvian researcher [...]
The species jumping of viruses and bacteria (spillover), zoonoses combined with diseases caused by pollutions, bad nutrition and incorrect medical practices (iatrogenesis) cause a 'syndemic', [...]
“Debt, climate issues and poor economic growth top the agenda during these meetings,” said Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of the religious development group Jubilee USA Network. [...]
The World Bank announced that it would discontinue the publication of the Doing Business Report and Ranking (DBR). This overdue decision came after a series of internal audits and an investigation [...]
The Economist states: the timetable for global decarbonisation has been set back five to ten years by the war in Ukraine.
While coal has come back with a bang and hydrocarbon prices have soared - [...]
More than 137 million Africans are facing acute food insecurity. This means that the inability to obtain food literally puts their lives at risk. Of these 137 million, 81% live in countries where [...]
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