By using politics to advance or even maintain competitive standing, companies leave societies voiceless, unable to address economic growth’s repercussions. Global economy has placed the government as the back seat drivers and the big businesses at the wheel.
Economy
Militaristic tendencies in the global economy
Information coming from the North Atlantic Trade Organisation (NATO), the European Union, the United States, Japan, Russia, China and other international players shows an increase in expenditure on the production of weapons and dual-use technological goods (civil and military). María Julia Mayoral Last January, NATO signed additional contracts […]
The stagnation threatening Europe’s economy
At the end of November 2023, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reduced its growth forecasts for Europe for both last year (0.6%) and the current year (1.2%). Sergio Ferrari If the OECD projections are correct, Europe will be the slowest region to recover among the […]
Europe’s frozen economy
Although some analysts believe they can find fewer negative signs in the European economic performance in the first weeks of 2023, they fail to counterbalance the forecast of a very difficult year with corresponding social repercussions, especially for the wage-earning and most vulnerable sectors in the continent. “Europe is […]
Countries surviving Covid and foreign interference
The year that is ending was a tough one for the world, and especially for the countries that make up the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Agreement (ALBA-PTA). The scourge of the Covid-19 pandemic was joined by US meddling and destabilising actions against members of […]