Articles by Peter Stalker

‘An embrace from Silvio Berlusconi is generally best avoided, at any age. But one of the more dubious welcomes he extended earlier this year was to 20,000 or so migrants from Tunisia in an exodus following the Arab spring.’

"Risk-taking is after all what you would expect from entrepreneurs, many of whom have not just made huge fortunes but also lost them in spectacular bankruptcies. The real shock was to discover the extent to which banking had evolved into a special case of state-subsidized capitalism that underwrites one-way bets."

The circulation of money and what it means for you.

Homing in on the global banking institutions such as the IMF and World Bank.

Only slightly daunted by the size of the task, Peter Stalker sets out to communicate the entire body of economic thought… well, certainly a lot of it…

Time to count the cash.

What’s the relation between monetarists and inflation?

Supply and demand in the Third World

What about balancing the books?

Sponsorship of Third World children has now become a major fund-raiser for voluntary agencies; it is a sure-fire way to attract money. But it is not such a good way to spend it.

During Indira Gandhi’s ‘Emergency Rule’, Rukmini Prasad was sterilised against her will. Four years later, she gives this interview to the New Internationalist.

Peter Stalker explains the background to today’s crisis.

Food aid seems to have everything going for it. The only problem is it doesn’t seem to work. PETER STALKER looks at the evidence.

PETER STALKER looks at the divide between rich and poor in the Third World countryside and at the chances for successful land reform.

‘I want to read and write,’ a Brazilian peasant once said, so that I can stop being the shadow of other people.’ Communication is essential to self-education and self-reliance. PETER STALKER profiles RIUS, a radical Mexican cartoonist.