STWR - Share The World's Resources

The post-war global institutions have largely worked well. But rising countries and growing threats are challenging their pre-eminence, writes The Economist.

Disaster capitalism is now riding on the back of the serial crises in food and energy - and Iraq isn't the only country in the midst of an oil-related stickup, writes Naomi Klein.

Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian.

The 'new world order' of the 21st century is unsustainable on its present course, but offers the promise of shared prosperity if we can rise to the challenges of an era of global convergence, writes Jeffrey Sachs.

Though China continues to be a major player in global food exports, growing resource constraints and environmental costs could mean an end to “easy” growth for Chinese agriculture.

Greater government intervention is needed to moderate the severe economic swings and inequalities that seem to be an unavoidable byproduct of globalization, according to a United Nations report released yesterday.

Robert Mugabe’s coronation is the time to start preparing in detail for the aftermath of his regime, say Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart.

Allied to global agribusiness, the agrarian elite of Bolivia are fomenting a coup as they struggle for control of the life-blood of the economy, writes Roger Burbach.

Far from stymying the environmental cause, the downturn in the world’s economies highlights just how pressing it is, writes Rajendra Pachauri (chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change).

Latin America is defined by a series of paradoxes that befuddle commentators, from the economy and popular support for leftist movements, to profits, growth and hunger, writes James Petras.