STWR - Share The World's Resources

In a bid to secure their interests at the WTO, rich countries are attempting to undermine the developmental components in talks on agriculture and cotton subsidies, causing great concern amongst developing countries, activists and NGOs, writes Ravi Kanth Devarakonda.

The failure of development reflects a crisis in the economic theory that has driven the World Bank's policies since 1980, largely due to a set of neoliberal economists who gained influence at the Bank in the late 1970s. It is now time to go beyond the Bank's neoliberal agenda that has driven it for far too long, argues Howard Stein

The international financial institutions are succumbing to the pressures of globalization, recent trade disputes and competition from Asia. As they desperately try to regain credibility and power, a debate over the best route to development has returned along with alternative approaches that are springing up around the world. By Robin Broad and John Cavanagh

The EU's Economic Partnership Agreements on trade for 76 of the world’s poorest countries (the African, Caribbean and Pacific nations) pose as “instruments for development”, but in fact threaten to beggar them, writes George Monbiot.

Regarded as one of the leading experts on Philippine trade and agriculture issues, Riza Bernabe was interviewed on the latest collapse of the WTO "Doha Round" trade negotiations. By Walden Bello.

Where once they used gunboats and sepoys, the rich nations now use chequebooks and lawyers to seize food from the hungry. The scramble for resources has begun, but - in the short term at any rate - we will hardly notice, writes George Monbiot.

We need a new economic paradigm globally that can discipline harmful corporate practices while actually increasing growth, reducing poverty, and expanding sustainable development globally, argues Deborah James.