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"Right now, in the post-global financial crisis era, and particularly post-Covid, we are seeing the return of industrial policy but its taking a different form from the past — it is far more financialised now, it tries to work within the parameters and institutions of a globalised world and it is much more outward-oriented."
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Environmental assassinations bad for business, new research shows by Genevieve Belmaker on 20 January 2021 After years of research, economics experts say they can prove that financial markets respond swiftly and definitively when multinationals are publicly named in connection with the assassination of an environmental defender. The researchers analyzed 354 assassinations over two decades connected to mining and extractive minerals projects around the world, noting particularly significant violent action in the Philippines and Peru. Once a company is named, the data show that within 10 days ...