Global Issues
This page provides links to work and key writings by individuals who raise the profile of international issues and promote action for equality and social justice. The articles selected are those that provide a wider view of the issues they address, and/or are illuminating for readers new to these perspectives.
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The global economy
- The Imperative for Improved Global Economic Coordination - Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate, discusses why global coordination, strongly recommended by the UN, is needed.
- How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab - how rich countries faced by a global food shortage now farm an area double the size of the UK to guarantee supplies for their citizens.
- A world of inequality - Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, points out that as economies slow down, people in the developing world who did not gain from the boom will face deteriorating conditions.
- Mohammed Yunus, recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, pioneered a revolutionary banking practice that is lifting millions out of poverty in Bangladesh. Yunus explains how his system of microcredit works in this video