Economy
Trade
New Internationalist considers the benefits, challenges and implications of an increasingly globalized world.
This section offers a critical analysis of free trade ideology, shines light on the increasing dominance of corporations through Inter-State Dispute Settlements and questions trade deals made on the global stage.
An India-UK trade deal could mean a race to the bottom for Indian workers
Two themes loom over the announcement that the UK is launching trade talks with India – farmers and Big Pharma, says Jean Blaylock.
The free trade myth
T.J. Coles explains ISDSs, legal mechanisms designed to favour corporate interests that will be integral to any post-Brexit US-UK trade deal.
Trade in turmoil: part two
In part two of The Big Story, Vanessa Baird explores the costs of free trade to the environment and Global South.
Trade in turmoil: part one
The global free trade system is being battered like never before. Can any good come of it, asks Vanessa Baird in part one of The Big Story?
Is trade in turmoil a chance for justice?
The global free trade system is being battered like never before. Can any good come of it, asks Vanessa Baird in the first of an eight-article exploration?
Why CETA is no better
The agreement between Canada and the EU remains the wrong type of trade deal. Alex Scrivener writes.
There’s a lot more at stake than didgeridoos
Amarina Smith looks at the lack of protection for indigenous traditional knowledge in Australia and beyond.
Human traffic: exposing the brutal organ trade
What will it take to stop the trafficking of vulnerable people for their organs? asks Nancy Scheper-Hughes.
When did fair trade become a consumerist concept?
Tim Gee argues for fair trade’s return to the heart of the global justice movement.
The true cost of your cup of tea
Sri Lankan tea pickers remain in a caste system that binds them to extreme poverty, says Marco Picardi.
Defending people’s milk in India
A vibrant network of small producers and milk co-operatives is threatened by free trade agreements and liberalized investment policies.
Can co-operatives provide an alternative to capitalism?
A new book and an event in London on 27 September will consider whether the co-operative model can save us from market-driven oblivion.
How Somalia's coastal communities called time on the pirates
Diaspora uncles and 'fathers against pirates' were as decisive as the frigates in ending the piracy scourge. Jamal Osman speaks to Hazel Healy.
‘Seeds of change’ in the struggle against global hunger
Our global food production system is broken. Kepa Artaraz on resistance to growing corporate domination.
The clout of the arms industry
The arms trade tends to have the government's ear. Why, wonders Dinyar Godrej, when it is so counter-productive?
The shadow world: corruption in the arms trade
Andrew Feinstein examines the corrupt networks of arms deals.
The Great Rebellion
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.
Will Obama bring 1990s food policy to an end?
‘If the transition to Obama is to become the end of an era as well as the end of an error,’ says food and agriculture activist and author Wayne Roberts, then ‘the legacy of Bill Clinton as well as George Bush will need to be overcome.’
Up for grabs
Workers are caught in the cross-hairs as free trade targets the labour movement. A report by *David Bacon*.
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Conclusion
Chocolate saves the world !
At the end of the trail Richard Swift takes a look at the magic bean to see if it can be persuaded to work better for everyone.
Globalization: An Alternative View
You don't have to see the world through the eyes of the market, says David Ransom.
