Current Opinion

November 13th, 2010

Bretton Woods

  1. Head of Greek Church questions austerity, troika - Kathimerini, 2 February
  2. CSOs urge ADB to deny Philippine loan for E-trikes - Voice of America, 2 February
  3. Asia Land Rights Activists Protest World Bank - Voice of America, 2 February

Dani Rodrik, Prof. International Political Economy@Harvard

  1. The Turkish economy after the global financial crisis
  2. Distributive politcs, economic growth, and the Simpsons
  3. "Beggar-thy-neighbor" versus "beggar-thyself" policies

World Development Movement

  1. Barclays wins ‘shame award’ for speculating on food prices
  2. Average Brit uses a Kenyan’s annual carbon emissions by 13 January
  3. New report: European banks fuelling food price volatility and hunger

Ngaire Woods, Prof. International Political Economy@Oxford

  1. Online Survey for GEG Taskforce on Global Knowledge Governance
  2. Will Global Health Break the Back of the G20?
  3. Survival Migration: An Agenda for the Commonwealth

Kevin Watkins, UN’s Human Development director

  1. Universal primary education by 2015? Not without some innovative financing | Kevin Watkins
  2. Bill Gates gets poor marks for ignoring education
  3. The struggle for South Sudan

Knowledge Ecology International

  1. US, France, Japan, South Africa, WIPO, ICC-BASCAP, Lilly, Microsoft and Pfizer co-sponsor Africa IP Forum in Cape Town
  2. KEI asks Senator Leahy (D-VT) to demand greater transparency in the TPPA
  3. EB130: CMC Churches' Action for Health intervention on the Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development (CEWG)

Intellectual Property Watch

  1. WIPO: ISP-Trademark Meeting Agreed; Industrial Design Treaty, Country Names Still On Table
  2. Tell WIPO What You Think!
  3. Will The Old Music Industry Giants Be Exchanged For New Ones?

Project Syndicate thought leaders

  1. WEEKLY: A Strategy for Russia’s Snow Revolution
  2. GROS: Austerity under Attack
  3. H RIGHTS: Havel Lives

Paulo dos Santos, Banking Innovation and Liberalisation Economist@SOAS

  1. Paulo dos Santos: Pursuit of profit and financial innovation led to the economic crisis
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