Discount stores have been in North America for half a century but there’s not a lot to celebrate says Wayne Roberts.
Filed in: Politics Trade United States Work
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Discount stores have been in North America for half a century but there’s not a lot to celebrate says Wayne Roberts.
Filed in: Politics Trade United States Work
Planners turning a deaf ear to local traders ignore the community at their peril says Horatio Morpurgo.
Now let’s have market dignity and justice…Mari Marcel Thekaekara feels a surge of fresh hope for Fair Trade.
Filed in: Fair Trade India Trade
Leah Borromeo reports on the tragic plight of India’s cotton farmers.
Filed in: Agriculture India Trade
Zimbabweans are fed up with sub-standard imported goods, explains Mgcini Nyoni.
The arms trade tends to have the government’s ear. Why, wonders Dinyar Godrej, when it is so counter-productive?
Andrew Feinstein examines the corrupt networks of arms deals.
Filed in: Arms South Africa Trade
India is allowing direct foreign investment, and the supermarkets are sharpening their knives, writes Mari Marcel Thekaekara.
Donu Kogbara and Dereje Alemayehu go head to head - join the debate in this month’s Argument.
Filed in: Development (Aid) Trade
The Great Recession may have stunned the Minority World, but the Majority World has survived more or less unscathed. David Ransom investigates why, and traces the outlines of a future that might just be worth having.
Filed in: Economics Finance Globalization Trade
A protest against opening the EU’s doors to Canada’s polluting tar sands
Filed in: Canada Climate Change Trade
Mari Marcel Thekaekara congratulates the country’s Dalit community on finally winning legal protection against discrimination.
Argument: Is it time to ditch the pursuit of economic growth?
As Mother’s Day approaches in India, Mari Marcel Thekaekara reflects on how motherhood has changed along with the online communication boom.
As a young student is injured for wearing the ‘wrong’ clothes, Mari Marcel Thekeakara says that women will fight on against violence.
Mari Marcel Thekaekara’s home is on the edge of a wildlife sanctuary, which is a pleasure and a pain, as she explains.