State-owned Wealth Funds (SWFs)
Markus Euskirchen | 28. January 2009 | Filed under: Finances • Finances | Leave a comment
Western politicians, business leaders and commentators seem paranoid about state-owned sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), particularly those from the Middle East and China. They fear that SWFs follow strategic political objectives — investing in Western companies and banks to secure control of strategically important industries such as telecommunications, energy and banking — rather than commercial interests. Continue reading →
The New Gold Rush
Mario Candeias | 27. January 2009 | Filed under: Health • Public Services • Health/Social Issues | Leave a comment
The new multinationals and the commodification of public sector work; in: Work Organisation Labour and Globalisation, Vol 2, No 2, – an interdisciplinary, international journal: Over the past few years a new breed of multinationals has arrived, almost unnoticed, on the scene. Like early capitalist adventurers, they have found a rich new source of wealth Continue reading →
Taking it Private. Consequences of the Global Growth of Private Equity
Markus Euskirchen | 22. January 2009 | Filed under: Finances • Finances | 1 Comment
The Corner House presents research about private equity that during the last two decades became an integral component of the world’s financial system – at a time when financial markets overshadowed the productive economy. Private equity was invariably behind the multi-billion buyout deals, and mergers and acquisitions that swept across the US and Europe, creating Continue reading →
Symbian software license revisited
Markus Euskirchen | 16. January 2009 | Filed under: Open Source • Communication | Leave a comment
The single editor blog “Boycott Novell” asks the question that moves many progressive cellular users: Is Symbian really open source? And if so, then what is the meaning of open source compared to — let us say — Free software in its purer form? The answer contains an instructive piece about software licences, patents and Continue reading →
Paris Water public at the end of 2009
Ann St | 14. January 2009 | Filed under: Municipalities • Press • Water • Water | Leave a comment
When the Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë was relected in March 2008, the vote gave him a mandate to return Paris’ water services to a public-run service. The electoral promise came after a broad campaign, triggered by rising prices, and following his re-election, the Mayor’s office announced in June 2008 that the remunicipalisation would go Continue reading →
G20: Response to global financial housing crisis
Mario Candeias | 6. January 2009 | Filed under: Infrastructure • Struggles • Municipalities • Finances | Leave a comment
In response to the global financial & housing crisis to G-20: Build a Global Social Pact for Equitable and Sustainable Habitat now! International housing rights alliances call for fundamental change of global financial architecture and financing habitat
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