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Though still weighed down by debt and austerity, developing countries are beginning to chart alternative paths as a new mood takes hold in the Global South.

The US sees the emergence of China and other Asian countries as a ‘fierce competition’. For the Global South, however, these developments bring new opportunities to pursue sovereign development.

In Africa, the leading forces of capitalism have ruthlessly wielded a neoliberal conception of corruption to undermine states’ sovereignty and open the continent to plunder at the hands of Western multinational corporations.

Most of the world is in the midst of a global economic slowdown, with no sign of a rebound. Among the G20, economic growth is expected to increase in only five countries: Brazil, China, Japan,…

Within the United Nations, there is a little-known debate about the status of global tax regulation. Extinguished in the early 1990s, the debate over global tax policy – and to a lesser extent regulation of…

As Chile’s people, led by the Popular Unity government, took control over their economic and political lives, they sent a flare into the sky announcing the great possibilities of socialism. Their advances mirrored those that…

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) were launched in 2015, aiming to be realised by 2030. However, halfway to this deadline, the UN assessed that they are all ‘seriously off track’. Why? An austere…

Dossier no. 66 examines the historical and current thinking on the question of development and offers an outline for a new socialist development theory.

This dossier analyses the growing fragility of the US-led ‘rules-based international order’ and examines the possibilities of regionalism to advance the construction of a new global system.

At the recent US-Africa Leaders Summit, Washington continued to advance its New Cold War agenda, maligning Chinese and Russian influence on the continent. Meanwhile, instead of addressing important issues – such as Africa’s debt crisis…