China Coronavirus Watch: Updated – Another Chinese City Locked Down to Prevent Spread
A compilation of what seems to be known about the new Chinese coronavirus.
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Plastics Watch: China to Ban Single-Use Plastics, Malaysia Rejects Waste Shipments
China announces a ban on single-use plastics, while Malaysia refuses to serve as the world’s waste bin, and returns foreign waste shipments.
Read more...Jeff Bezos’ Not So Excellent Indian Adventure: Modi Government Disses Inept Amazon
India’s top BJP ministers show cold shoulder to foreigner bearing “gifts”- the Amazon promise to create jobs- and push back accordingly.
Read more...Digital Money: Implications for Emerging Market and Developing Economies
A clinical look at digital money ideas for developing economies finds the benefits are narrower than boosters would have you believe.
Read more...Trump’s China Trade Deal Handwave
There’s not much to like in the Trump “Phase 1” China trade deal because there’s not much to it.
Read more...Conservative Win in Britain Means More Than Economic Trouble Ahead
In an uncertain economic context, the Conservative election win means a loss for health and the environment.
Read more...Inequality and Trade: Simulation Evidence for 54 Developing Nations
A full-throated defense of more liberalized trade for developing nations…when the data is somewhat mixed.
Read more...Brexit: The End of the Beginning?
Brexit jockeying is underway.
Read more...Why US Hostility Towards Chinese Tech Groups Feels Like Déjà Vu
US reactions to Chinese competitive threats are an awful lot like the ones to Japan of the 1980s, but the US now has a lot less leverage.
Read more...We Asked, You Answered: Here’s How The Climate Changed Your Lives In 2019
No matter where you live, climate change will find you
Read more...In the Shadow of Impeachment, Neoliberal Democrats Hand Trump a Victory With USMCA (“NAFTA 2.0”)
By Thomas Neuburger. Originally published at DownWithTyranny! Donald Trump discussing the new NAFTA trade deal (source) If Trump gets re-elected, if Big Tech continues to evade accountability, if imperial adventures continue abroad, if migrant farmworkers cannot feed their families, you can trace it back to this Tuesday, and the actions a House Speaker took while […]
Read more...Climate Migration Frightens… Climate Poverty Is Frightening!
Taking a stab at how climate change pressures will increase poverty and migration.
Read more...US Targets Wage-Repression Model in Mexico, Demands Inspections, Industry Has a Cow
A proposed provision in the so-called “NAFTA 2.0” to increase autoworker wages in Mexico is raising hackles south of the border.
Read more...Wealthy Countries’ Approach to Climate Change Condemns Hundreds of Millions of People to Suffer
Emerging economies want large scale subsidies from their richer brethren to pay for them to move to green energy sources.
Read more...Waste Watch: Fashion Rental Services Expand, NYC Tackles Commercial Textile Waste
More retailers join the clothing rental party, but that won’t seriously dent the environmental impact of the fashion industry.
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