by Daniel Krähmer | Dec 3, 2010
Glimpses of clear sunlight in a long winter only indicate that summer is possible, but are not summer itself (not even spring). The Alternative Information Development Centre (AIDC) welcomes that the government’s New Growth Path (NGP) document recognizes the hard...
by Daniel Krähmer | Oct 6, 2011
“It is now clear that the world is slipping — or has already slipped — into a new economic downturn, and that this will have serious consequences for the developing countries. Indeed, some prominent economists have warned that this time the crisis...
by Daniel Krähmer | Oct 6, 2011
This Thursday, in Washington, finance ministers and central bank governors of the BRICS group of emerging powers – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – will get together and, in the words of Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega, “Talk...
by Daniel Krähmer | Oct 6, 2011
Does the chaos in the Eurozone signal the beginning of the end of the Euro?Four years and a couple of trillion dollars worth of rescue packages after the eruption of the sub-prime crisis in 2007, we are nowhere near resolution of the “North Atlantic Financial Crisis”....
by Daniel Krähmer | Oct 6, 2011
The various mechanisms evolved through global negotiations to deal with shared environmental problems, such as climate change, fall short because they are not located within a larger debate on dealing with human well-being and instead focus only on limiting damage....