STWR - Share The World's Resources

The World Bank has warned that world poverty is much greater than previously thought. It has revised its previous estimate and now says that 1.4 billion people live in poverty, based on a new poverty line of $1.25 per day, reports Steve Schifferes.

Today multinational corporations are more powerful then ever, especially over workers and the government - and politics is more about avoiding this central topic than ever before, says Ralph Nader.

Financial firms have become the dominant players in commodity markets, and their speculative activity has led to the price increases in oil and foodgrains, argues Jayati Ghosh.

A "toxic combination" of bad policies, economics and politics is killing people on a large scale, according to a new report from the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Regarded as one of the leading experts on Philippine trade and agriculture issues, Riza Bernabe was interviewed on the latest collapse of the WTO "Doha Round" trade negotiations. By Walden Bello.

Waste plays a central role in the ongoing food crisis as immense amounts of food are lost to processing, transport, sale, and consumption, says a report  released during World Water Week.

Where once they used gunboats and sepoys, the rich nations now use chequebooks and lawyers to seize food from the hungry. The scramble for resources has begun, but - in the short term at any rate - we will hardly notice, writes George Monbiot.

The tragedy of the commons - which asserts that human beings are helpless prisoners of biology and the market - is a useful political myth, and a scientific-sounding way of saying that there is no alternative to the dominant world order, writes Ian Angus.

Why is the price of oil so high? Because the Bush administration did to the commodities market what it did to housing, argues James K. Galbraith.

Water and sanitation are not far behind the food, energy and climate crises - and the causes of water scarcity are essentially identical to those of the food crisis, say development analysts. Reported by Thalif Deen.