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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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Trade and Development Backstory: The Struggle Over the UNCTAD 15 Mandate

Nov 10, 2021

Governments and civil society organizations must work together with UNCTAD to provide developing countries the tools — and the transformed governance regimes — they need to “build back better” through these challenging and difficult times.

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The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

Nov 5, 2021

Economic journalist Martin Wolf’s address to the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University’s 20th anniversary conference, Economic Policy and Economic Theory for the Future

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Autos and the European Union: Another Crash?

Aug 30, 2021

In Europe, imbalances in the structure of the automotive and a lack of industrial policies risk creating a deadly cocktail for millions of European workers just as the auto sector is undergoing decisive changes.

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“We Are Running a Giant Experiment on Children”: Covid Deniers Put Kids at Risk

Aug 19, 2021

“Just learn to live with it” policies subject children to an experiment with a systemic disease that does serious and lasting damage, warns former NASA and DARPA technologist

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New Ecuadorian Government Teams Up with Powerful International Lobbies to Rejoin Investment Treaties Prohibited by the Constitution

Jul 14, 2021

Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) allow foreign capitalists to run roughshod over the rights of Ecuadorians

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What Bagehot Means for 21st Century Central Bankers

Jun 8, 2021

Is Victorian writer Walter Bagehot, whose adage “lending freely against good collateral at a penalty rate” has been gospel for central bankers, still relevant in a post-Great Financial Crisis world?