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Waiting to Credit Marvels

on global justice, climate change, cricket, living in Winchester and other trials of patience

Tag: economic stimulus

How can poor countries fight the credit crunch?

Anger is brewing amongst African governments as their economies are undermined by a crisis for which they are not responsible. They lack the monetary tools available to countries attending the G20 London Summit.

Published March 23, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged aid, alpha, debt, economic stimulus, global divide

Gandhian values in the economic crisis

Our sense of values continues to rotate in the spin-dryer. On the same day that Gandhi’s spectacles sell for millions, the Bank of England decides that money is worthless.

Published March 9, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged economic stimulus, gamma, india

The different definitions of decent work

We’re seeing a lot of headlines about global unemployment. But is it really “global” or just a measure of problems for the richer countries?

Published February 2, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged beta, decent work, economic stimulus, ghana

Economic stimulus enough to end global hunger

ich governments are investing unimaginable sums to stimulate their own economies. These sums could have ended global hunger years ago.

Published December 15, 2008
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged beta, economic stimulus, food security
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Editor of Tread Softly briefings on global justice. Involved with Winchester Action on the Climate Crisis, Winchester Poetry Festival, City of Winchester Trust and Hampshire Hogs CC. Still playing cricket, fives, real tennis. Views my own. Please respect copyright.

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Heaviness of being. And poetry
Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things