Archive - Challenging Development

Trump Undresses Rival Trade Myths

President Trump’s tariffs have exposed neoliberal trade ideology and undermined corporate lobbying in the name of free trade. But his rhetoric has also…

Jul 1 •

June 2025

Weaponizing Food Worsens Starvation

Wars, economic shocks, planetary heating and aid cuts have worsened food crises in recent years, with 300 million people now threatened by starvation.

Jun 17 •

Can East Asia Show the Way?

With two-fifths of the world economy, East Asia can inspire others by creatively responding to the US President’s tariff challenge by promoting fair…

Jun 3 •

May 2025

Will Europe Wage Peace?

With Trump’s efforts to end the Ukraine war, Europeans are now mainly responsible for prolonging it. Despite lame protestations of peace, Europe seems…

May 20 •

Trump Accord Sows Discord in US Empire

President Trump has deliberately sown discord worldwide to better serve supposed US interests. He will not cede influence, let alone power and control…

May 6 •

April 2025

Trump Wants World to Subsidise US Empire

Donald Trump’s top economic advisor claims the President has weaponised tariffs to ‘persuade’ other nations to pay the US to maintain its supposedly…

Apr 22 •

Trump’s ‘Shock and Awe’ Tariffs

Donald Trump has seized world attention by arbitrarily imposing sweeping tariffs on the rest of us. His message: America First, and he will make America…

Apr 15 •

March 2025

Malnutrition Not Due to Cash Poverty Alone

The World Bank set its US ‘dollar-a-day’ poverty line using its 1990 data. Despite many doubts and criticisms, its poverty numbers fell until the…

Mar 26 •

Western Climate Hypocrisy Exposed by NATO Energy Policy

NATO geopolitical strategy has now joined the ‘coalition’ of Western geoeconomic forces accelerating planetary heating, now led again by re-elected US…

Mar 11 •

February 2025

America First Deepens World Stagnation

Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) appeal captured US mass discontent against globalisation. America First reflects accelerating ethnonationalism…

Feb 25 •

Imperialism (Still) Rules

Many in the West, of the political right and left, now deny imperialism. For some, empires were pre-capitalist atavisms. But even the Economist now sees…

Feb 11 •

January 2025

An ‘Exorbitant Privilege’ for All?

Ending US$ dominance alone will not end monetary imperialism. Only appropriate multilateral arrangements to clear international payments can meet Global…

Jan 29 •

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