ORANGE ALERT

Extreme weather needs urgent action,as March sandstorms indicated Those waking up in China's northern provinces on March 15 would have been forgiven for thinking they'd been transported to a completely different planet.Their cities were engulfed in thick orange smog,the likes of which had not been seen for a decade.     

Only Collective Action Can End Poverty Post-COVID-19

正For more than two decades,the global battle to eradicate extreme poverty has made steady and effective progress.Despite a number of serious environmental and economic black swan events that threatened to perilously throw efforts off course, for the past 25 years the number of people living in extreme poverty—registered as people surviving on less than $1.9 a day according to the World Bank—has dropped to record levels.     

China's 14th Five-Year Plan: Global Game Changer

The China skeptics are hard to please and anything the Chinese Government does will be viewed by them in a negative light. According to them, China’s rise should be feared, while forecasting China’s doom is smart thinking. But what is the real China and how to understand the nation from a more neutral perspective?     

The Evolution of Authoritarianism and Restrictionism in Brazilian Immigration Policy: Jair Bolsonaro in Historical Perspective

Research on immigration politics has been focused on countries of the Global North. Latin America is often discussed only as a migrant-sending region. This study offers a comparative-historical analysis of Brazilian immigration policy from national independence to the present day. Based on archival research and synthesis of multiple documentation sources, the study finds an affinity between authoritarian politics and immigration restrictionism in the country, which is consistent with theories that link liberal democracy to pro-immigrant policies. Brazilian authoritarian leaders have framed immigrants as threats to the security, order, and culture of the nation to justify tighter controls on immigration. The study concludes that immigration restrictionism can develop in the Global South with discourses strikingly similar to those circulated in the Global North. The findings also suggest that Brazil is still far from the ideal of a multiracial liberal democracy.     

The Dredd-Ful Day of Judgement: Judicial Models and the Twilight of the West

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique - I am the Law It is hard to imagine two more disparate characters than Judge Joseph Dredd and...     

Import substitution,export promotion and the structure of Brazil's protection

Following a brief introduction the second section of this paper analyzes Brazil's policy of import‐substituting industrialization (ISI), as it relates to a number of variables suggested by economic theory. The third part investigates the inter‐industry structure of Brazil's protection as it relates to the country's comparative advantage in manufactured goods. Finally, the concluding section takes up certain policy implications suggested by the previous analysis.