The promise of neoliberalism was to liberate individuals from state regulation to better enable individuals to succeed in market competition. Firms’ profits would increase, and wealth would trickle ...

“Microfinance” comprises financial services, the most familiar of which are loans of $50 to $1500 that enable the borrower to launch or expand a business. In Bangladesh, many microfinance programs are ...

In the early 1930s, Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek, then based at the London School of Economics, jotted off a memo to the school's director, William Beveridge. At the time, the Great Depression ...

A few months before the coronavirus shut down the world, Chile exploded against neoliberalism. A World Bank economist, Sebastian Edwards, was on the ground to record the rebellion: On Oct 18, 2019, ...

The burden of proof that microfinance makes any meaningful contribution to poverty reduction remains squarely with its practitioners. This is a high hurdle: a country achieving fast economic growth is ...

The NHS was built by on the model of the Tredegar Medical Aid Society – a mutual health provision organisation in South Wales set up by miners and their families, that ran for over forty years. By ...

In country after country around the world, people are rising up to challenge entrenched, failing neoliberal political and economic systems, with mixed but sometimes promising results. Progressive ...

Why do some societies try to turn education into a commodity, while others recognize it as a necessary social good? In this interview, Bob Kuttner speaks with Cathie Martin, professor of political ...

The Democratic Party is having an internal battle over the “small” and “large” infrastructure bills, but what’s really at stake is the future of neoliberalism within the party. The smaller “bipartisan ...

Sexisim, youthful rebellion, the struggle for independence, social media empowerment, American popular culture, neoliberal poverty, domestic/sexual abuse are just some of the themes in three must-see ...