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Twenty days on and the Gaza Strip is still closed…

The Pesticide Action Network reports from Penang on the threat to China's staple food.…

Call to action on 15 November 2008…

At the irrelevant 'Bretton Woods II' conference in Washington in a couple of weeks' time, the elephant in the room is the disastrous performance of the IMF, World Bank and WTO…

*Maria Golia* tackles taboos about money in Cairo.…

An estimated one billion people will flee their homes by 2050...What'sthe most urgent threat facing poor people in developing countries…

From the forests of the Congo basin, Dignité Pygmée campaigner *Adrien Sinafasi Makelo* explains why he and his people tackled the World Bank – and put it to shame.…

It was just sitting there, waiting to happen – the Paul Wolfowitz corruption scandal. But over so small a thing! I don’t want to belittle the World Bankchief’s actions, but using his position to ensure a plum job (salary$200,000) for his lover Shaha Riza is chicken feed by World Bankstandards.…

The ArroganceThis week were linking up Asia, Latin America and the Middle East to explore why that bundle of international economic policies favoured by the neo-cons can fail so badly and uncover a common link…

Travelling through Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico and the US, Eduardo Galeano is searched for ‘prohibited items’.…