On the coming food crisis
At what point do you draw a line through the dots on a graph and call them a trend? At what point do we stop calling talking about “another food…
Infographic: How banks cause hunger
Banks and other financial speculators are betting on prices in financial markets, causing dramatic spikes in the cost of food. This infographic that we’ve produced at the World Development Movement…
Rich getting richer as the cuts & inflation kick the rest
If you want to know what's happening in the economy, you can do worse than looking at which businesses are succeeding and failing. And so two stories leep out from…
Krugman misses the mark on food speculation
Murray Worthy is Policy Officer at the World Development Movement. Paul Krugman is an economist I have huge respect for, and one with whom I often agree. This made it…
Help stop a massacre in Egypt today
Image courtesty of Sarah Carr via flickr The brave people of Egypt are standing up. The oppressive government which has ruled them for years is shaking at its core as…
Tunisia’s struggle and ours: battles in the same war
As an anti-cuts campaigner in the UK fighting rises in tuition fees or corporate tax dodging or the closure of a local library or redundancies at a city council or…