Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram (kuala lumpur, malaysia) Tuesday, October 22, 2024 Inter Press Service KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Oct 22 (IPS) – New institutional economics (NIE) has received another…
Read more Another Nobel for Anglocentric Neoliberal Institutional EconomicsThe state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) oil company is completing its seventh refinery on a 600-hectare site at Dos Bocas in the municipality of Paraíso, in the southeastern state…
Read more Pemex Exploits Fossil Fuels with Money from International BanksCredit: Angela Umoru-David Opinion by wgarcia (abuja) Tuesday, August 01, 2023 Inter Press Service ABUJA, Aug 01 (IPS) – Not all wars are fought on the battleground. The Cold…
Read more Scramble For Africa: It’s Not 1884 All Over Again, Is It?Credit: NicoElNino / Shutterstock.com Opinion by Robert Whitfield (london) Friday, June 16, 2023 Inter Press Service LONDON, Jun 16 (IPS) – Regulation of a technology typically emerges sometime after…
Read more The Regulation Tortoise and the AI Hareby Thalif Deen (united nations) Thursday, June 15, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Jun 15 (IPS) – As artificial intelligence (AI) turns into a global phenomenon, it has…
Read more AI ChatGPT Responds to UNs Proposed Code of Conduct to Monitor Artificial IntelligenceOpinion by James Paul (new york) Thursday, June 08, 2023 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Jun 08 (IPS) – The UN is hustling to play a role – perhaps…
Read more Will Big Powers Condone a UN Role in Artificial Intelligence?Opinion by Anwarul K. Chowdhury (new york) Wednesday, June 07, 2023 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Jun 07 (IPS) – Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury is Former Under-Secretary-General and High…
Read more AI Genie is Out of the Bottle UN Should Take the Challenge to Make it Work for the Good of Humanityby Thalif Deen (united nations) Tuesday, June 06, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) – The frighteningly rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have triggered the…
Read more Does Artificial Intelligence Need a Regulatory UN Watchdog?Yellowfin tuna diving. Opinion by Grantly Galland (washington dc) Tuesday, May 23, 2023 Inter Press Service WASHINGTON DC, May 23 (IPS) – Global fisheries are worth more than US$140…
Read more Governments Are Changing Fisheries Management for the Better, but More Action Is Still NeededProtesters in Mulhouse, France warn of the dangers of privatisation. The sign reads ‘when everything is privatised, we will be deprived of everything. Credit: NeydtStock / Shutterstock.com Opinion…
Read more It’s Time to Move Away from Public-Private Partnerships & Build a Future That is PublicOpinion by Ulrika Modeer, Tsegaye Lemma (united nations) Wednesday, January 18, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Jan 18 (IPS) – The multilateral system, even in the face of…
Read more The Value of Strong Multilateral Cooperation in a Fractured WorldMultinational companies bribing their way into foreign markets go largely unpunished, and victims’ compensation is rare, according to new report. Credit: Ashwath Hedge/Wikimedia Commons by Baher Kamal (madrid) Tuesday,…
Read more Corruption: The Most Perpetrated and Least Prosecuted Crime – Part IOpinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Hezri A Adnan (kuala lumpur, malaysia) Tuesday, December 06, 2022 Inter Press Service KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Dec 06 (IPS) – Natural flows do not…
Read more Rich Nations Doubly Responsible for Greenhouse Gas EmissionsMap of the 1858 trans-Atlantic cable route. Credit: Wikipedia. Opinion by Manuel Manonelles (barcelona) Wednesday, November 09, 2022 Inter Press Service BARCELONA, Nov 09 (IPS) – The recent incidents…
Read more The Paradox of Invisibility: Submarine Cables and the Geopolitics of Deep SeasView of the bulk fuel plant in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Because the kingdom needs oil prices to remain high to balance its budget, it pushed OPEC and its…
Read more Oil Exporters Make Markets, Not WarOpinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Anis Chowdhury (sydney and kuala lumpur) Tuesday, October 25, 2022 Inter Press Service SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 25 (IPS) – Widespread adverse reactions…
Read more Macroeconomic Policy Coordination More One-Sided, IneffectiveOpinion by Isabel Ortiz, Matti Kohonen (london / new york) Monday, October 24, 2022 Inter Press Service LONDON / NEW YORK, Oct 24 (IPS) – Finance ministers of the…
Read more Austerity: A Raging Storm for the Developing World that can be AvoidedOpinion by Riad Meddeb (united nations) Thursday, October 13, 2022 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Oct 13 (IPS) – As much of the world was starting to glimpse recovery…
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