Autor: Oscar Ugarteche, Tesalia Valencia
El Banco Asiático de Infraestructura y el Banco del Sur: dos ejemplos de regionalismo financiero
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El Banco Asiático de Inversión en Infraestructura (BAII), propuesto por China, y actualmente con 57 miembros fundadores. Se posiciona como una institución multilateral alternativa para el financiamiento de infraestructura de las economías emergentes, principalmente de Asia, desde la construcción de carreteras y aeropuertos hasta antenas de comunicación y viviendas económicas. A diferencia del banco del Sur, cuya preocupación era la recirculación del ahorro y las reservas internacionales dentro de Sudamérica, el banco Asiático está interesado en incorporar a países que tengan la tecnología para construir el tipo de infraestructura que Asia demanda para el siglo XXI.
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El trigo, otro commodity financiarizado
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Resumen: Si el petróleo es el combustible mundial por excelencia y el cobre ejerce de engranaje en la producción industrial global, entonces el trigo desempeña el papel de sostén alimenticio de la humanidad. Como todas las materias primas su precio reacciona a factores de oferta y demanda; pero, a diferencia del resto, las condiciones climatológicas juegan un papel todavía más crucial. No obstante, existen otros elementos cuya incidencia en la determinación de los precios es notable: ¿cuál es el efecto de los mercados de futuros en la caída de la cotización del grano entre 2012 y 2015?
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Fecha: Lunes, Mayo 23, 2022 - 19:52
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For decades, the mainstream of both the Democratic and Republican parties favored expanding trade between the U.S. and other countries. Greater globalization, these politicians promised, would increase economic growth — and with the bounty from that growth, the country could compensate any workers who suffered from increased trade. But it didn’t work out that way. Instead, trade has contributed to the stagnation of living standards for millions of working-class Americans, by shrinking the number of good-paying, blue-collar jobs here. The incomes of workers without a bachelor’s degree have grown only slowly over the past few decades. Many measures of well-being — even life expectancy — have declined in recent years. All along, many politicians and experts continued to insist that trade was expanding the economic pie. And they were often right. But struggling workers understandably viewed those claims as either false or irrelevant, and they refused to support further expansions of trade. Fuente: |
Fecha: Miércoles, Mayo 18, 2022 - 21:40
Headlines are abuzz with the return of inflation, which, according to some measures, is now reaching 40 year highs. Considering that vanquishing inflation is supposed to be the one undisputed achievement of neoliberalism, why is it rising? Many explanations – from excessive money creation to disrupted supply chains to tightening labour markets and a post-lockdown surge in demand are offered. The view that it would be a short term affair is giving way to a more sobering assessment of its persistence, particularly since geopolitical conflict gave inflation a booster shot. As for its solution, one thing is clear, dealing with it as Paul Volcker famously did in the late 1970s is not a politically affordable option for governments beholden to elites whose outrageous fortunes depend on low interest rates. This panel will seek to examine this phenomenon by asking question such as why is inflation rising? Can we expect it persist? What are the major policy-options being discussed and what are their political implications of each? How should socialists think about this new problem? Fuente: |
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