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| Bangladesh
Climate change and neoliberal policies: the case of BangladeshLocated in the largest delta at the world, where two Himalayan rivers, the Brahmaputra and the Ganges, converge and flow into the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh is used to climatic catastrophes. Half of the land area of Bangladesh is less than 10 metres above sea level. It consists mainly of silt deposited by the rivers which flow down from the Himalayan glaciers. When the snow melts it regularly causes large-scale floods. The coast is at the mercy of cyclones and giant waves which submerge the coastal areas. -> read article... |
| Feminism
Interrogating the Feminine MystiqueAn interview with Stephanie Coontz about her new book, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s. -> read article... |
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| Economic Crisis
The Euro Pact: when the kidnapper rescues youThe Euro Pact is the way chosen by the EU heads of government to implement their Economic Governance Plan. This means, among other things, cutting wages and social spending, eroding social protection models and introducing greater job insecurity. Constitutionally enshrining the straitjacket of the stability pact, the Pact imposes control on deficits (3% of GDP) and debt (60%) and, with this, the pro-cyclical nature of economic policy. It will apply greater fiscal regression and a shrinking of the public sector. Thus, member countries are reducing the margins of popular sovereignty and of economic, social and labour policies which will have to adapt to institutionalized criteria that, in the absence of significant political and social upheavals, will be practically irreversible. -> read article... |