Must Watch: Idea of Growth and Development

DR. VANDANA SHIVA

“The American people should see that corporations have abandoned them long ago,” says scientist, environmentalist, and food justice activist Dr. Vandana Shiva, named one of the seven most influential women in the world by Forbes magazine.  “The people will have to rebuild democracy as a living democracy.”

Dr. Shiva has been fighting corporate takeover in every area in her native India, combating a nuclear plant one week and patented, genetically modified seeds another. She advises American activists how they can fight the merging of corporations and government at home and around the world. Understanding the Corporate Takeover http://www.vandanashiva.org/?p=678

[en] Auftaktrede beim Attac-Kongress «Jenseits des Wachstums» in Berlin, 20.5.2011. Die Inderin Vandana Shiva ist Umwelt- und Bürgerrechtlerin, Trägerin des alternativen Nobelpreises,Vorsitzende des International Forum on Globalization, Mitglied des Club of Rome und des Exekutivkomitees des Weltzukunftsrates.

Lunacy of Economic Growth

The Impact of Globalization on Food and Water

Planting the Seeds for Change

The Future of Food

Globalization: Global Governance

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INET’s Conference at Bretton Woods on April 10, 2011

Joseph Stiglitz is a Professor at Columbia University

Charles Dallara is the Managing Director of the Institute of International Finance

Y.V. Reddy is the Former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India

Yasheng Huang is Professor of Political Economy at the MIT Sloan School of Management

Brad Delong is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley

Yu Yongding is the Director of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Question and Answer Discussion session from INET’s Conference at Bretton Woods, with participants including Paul Blustein, Joseph Stiglitz, Charles Dallara, Y.V. Reddy, Yasheng Huang, Brad Delong, and Yu Yongding

ASIA’S STRATEGIC PARTICIPATION IN THE G-20 FOR GLOBAL ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE REFORM

PIIE Director C. Fred Bergsten speaks at an event cohosted by the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on April 25, 2011. The event was held to assess the accomplishments of the G-20 summit in Seoul in November 2010 and to release the ADB-PIIE report “Reshaping Global Economic Governance and the Role of Asia in the Group of Twenty.” Bergsten’s presentation was followed by a speech by Iwan J. Azis, Head of the Asian Development Bank’s Office of Regional Economic Integration (OREI).