16 May 2008
By James Petras
All the major international banks (IMF, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Asia Development Bank etc), all the major financial newspapers and mass media have been forced to recognize that there is a major food crisis, that hundreds of millions of people face hunger, malnutrition and outright starvation.
‘The world’s poor countries will spend [...]
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16 Sep 2007
by James Petras*
The complete China paper – September 2007
Picture: Shanghai, the financial capital of China.
Introduction
China’s drive toward economic superpower status in the world economy has accelerated in recent years. As China’s economy becomes globalized, fundamental changes in its financial markets have opened opportunities for overseas expansion as well as increasing risks of financial [...]
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