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  •    Sri Lanka faces crippling debt repayments of more than $31 billion in this decade unless these are reduced by write offs or restructuring GoodIdeasshutterstockcom   MR Online

    How not to deal with a debt crisis

    Originally published: Social Europe on January 16, 2023 (more by Social Europe)

    Jayati Ghosh warns against historically disastrous approaches to the sovereign-debt crisis hitting low- and middle-income countries.

  •    Not everyone smilingAmazon workers at Vélizy Villacoublay in France Frederic LegrandCOMEO  shutterstockcom   MR Online

    Amazon and the power of big digital platforms

    Originally published: Social Europe on January 17, 2022 by DARIO GUARASCIO, ANDREA COVERI, CLAUDIO COZZA (more by Social Europe) (Posted Jan 28, 2022)

    Platform power is often traced to markets, implying anti-trust action. The source, and the solution, lie elsewhere.

  •    The feminist building blocks of a just sustainable economy   MR Online

    The feminist building-blocks of a just, sustainable economy

    Originally published: Social Europe on November 15, 2021 (more by Social Europe)

    Jayati Ghosh finds in a UN Women report a blueprint for an economy which serves the public—rather than the other way around.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Nikolai Gogol’s Department of Government Efficiency
    Andy Merrifield    A 1926 Soviet illustration of a production of Gogols play The Government Inspector showing audience members in the foreground and actors on stage in the background   MR Online

    Almost two centuries after its opening night, Gogol’s five-act satirical play The Government Inspector continues to create a stir with every performance, seemingly no matter where. Maybe because corruption and self-serving double-talk aren’t just familiar features of 19th-century Russia, but have become ingrained facets of all systems of government and officialdom, making them recognizable to […]

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  • Strike at the Helm: The First Ministerial Meeting of the New Cycle of the Bolivarian Revolution
    Hugo Chávez    Mural of Chávez in Caracas Univision   MR Online

    On October 7th, 2012, after hearing of his victory as the nation‘s candidate with 56 percent of the vote, President Hugo Chávez Frias announced from a balcony in his hometown that a new cycle was beginning the very next day, October 8th.

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