{"id":4981,"date":"2008-12-16T13:32:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T18:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4981"},"modified":"2008-12-16T13:32:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T18:32:04","slug":"latest-financial-crisis-analysis-from-the-americas-policy-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4981","title":{"rendered":"Latest Financial Crisis Analysis from the Americas Policy Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

Produced and distributed by the Americas Policy Program, a program of the Center for International Policy (CIP). For more information, visit http:\/\/www.americaspolicy.org\/<\/a> and http:\/\/www.ciponline.org\/<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

We’ve just posted three articles on aspects of the global financial crisis that we think you’ll find interesting. The first is by food and agriculture expert Raj Patel<\/a> on the many incarnations of the World Trade Organization’s Doha Round. It appears that just when you think it’s out for the count, it’s up and fighting again. And that’s not good news for the poor. Says Patel, “although it’s called\u00a0the Doha Development Round, it’s not the poorest who will be developed by the negotiations. The G-20 declaration (to revive the talks) signals that the world’s richest governments are keener to support their big industries as we head into a global recession, than to think terribly hard about their poorest citizens.”<\/p>\n

Americas contributor Tony Phillips<\/a> writes on the global summits to deal with the financial crisis and asks whether, after this hyperactive bout of diplomatic activity, we’re really any better off. Phillips looks closely at the real meaning of what to most of us is gobbledy-kook in the strange world of derivatives. He concludes that “none of the language in the\u00a0White House\u00a0G20 Summit Declaration is truly innovative… It rehashes the conventional wisdom that has crippled the world financial system: further deregulation of financial and trade markets, prohibitions on protectionism or restrictions on private capital flows,and resolution of\u00a0the moribund Doha round of the WTO within a year.”<\/p>\n

Also see a new post at\u00a0Americas MexicoBlog\u00a0 (http:\/\/americasmexico.blogspot.com\/<\/a>) called “Coping with Crisis, Latin America Bucks the System.” It’s about the Nov. 26 meeting of Alba countries\u00a0that decided to create a regional monetary unit to replace the endangered dollar.\u00a0As the G-20 repeats tired recipes for disaster, these countries are making some bold plans. The challenge–one that Latin\u00a0American integration has\u00a0typically had trouble meeting–\u00a0will be in bringing them to practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Produced and distributed by the Americas Policy Program, a program of the Center for International Policy (CIP). For more information, visit http:\/\/www.americaspolicy.org\/ and http:\/\/www.ciponline.org\/. We’ve just posted three articles on aspects of the global financial crisis that we think you’ll … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1il","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4981"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4988,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981\/revisions\/4988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}