Issue 421 of New Internationalist

Reader-owned global journalism

April 2009

April 2009

With the global economic system in meltdown, the once booming chorus of ‘Let the Market Decide’ is pretty unconvincing these days. Welcome, the Age of Possibility.

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In this issue

  • Facts, figures and the history of Ghana.
  • It’s time to ask some very basic questions, like: What are banks for? What are houses for? What’s credit for? What’s the economy for? Or, for that matter, what’s the environment for? Vanessa Baird suggests a 10-point economic detox programme.
  • A rare glimpse into the world’s most secretive country, by French aid worker Jérôme Bossuet who spent three years there.