Structural adjustment programmes underlying firstly IMF, and then later on World Bank were fundamentally based on two models – the ‘Polak model’ and the ‘Swan-Salter model’ – developed during the ...
Syria’s soaring electricity prices are deepening daily hardship and exposing how the government’s economic strategy is ...
In the wreckage of the neoliberal order they once championed, there are a number of paths available to Europe’s ...
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The class politics of austerity

In 2021, the United States was confronted with a challenge that it hadn’t seen in decades: inflation. Working-class Americans ...
Conditionalities of International Mon etary Fund (IMF) programmes and World Bank (or simply ‘the Bank’) development policy ...
Gillian Schutte advocates for re-Africanisation in South Africa, highlighting a pivotal shift away from neoliberalism and the ...
A fiscal crisis – sometimes called a sovereign debt crisis – is a sharp economic shock or downturn caused or sparked by high ...
The mayor’s husband yelled at a School Committee member in Stop & Shop, and now we’re comparing it to white supremacy and settler colonialism? I live in Northampton. I disagree with the mayor on a few ...
In his criminal trial, Goetz was acquitted of the most serious charges, including attempted murder. The defense persuaded the jury that Goetz’s self-incriminating statements to the police — “I was ...
After Chávez's death in 2013, the process continued under Nicolás Maduro but encountered growing difficulties, including ...
Portugal’s 2026 presidential election has delivered a stark warning about the state of the country’s political system.