Politics / Trade
Articles about Trade, ordered by date. 
'My heart weeps inside me'
Stories and opinions from those with personal experience of the organ trade.
Perpetual scars
A forensic examination of the persistent problem of trafficking vulnerable people for their organs, and what it would take to stamp it out, by Nancy Scheper-Hughes.
Commodities and dependency - The Facts
The facts and figures of commodities and our dependence on them.
The pitfalls of resource wealth
Natural resource wealth isn't always a blessing. As Wayne Ellwood discovers, sometimes it can be just the opposite.
How Somalia's coastal communities called time on the pirates
Diaspora uncles and 'fathers against pirates' were as decisive as the frigates in ending the piracy scourge. Jamal Osman speaks to Hazel Healy.
In the firing line
Piracy is just one in a long list of problems facing seafarers in a cut-throat shipping industry, reports Olivia Swift.
Empire strikes back - where counter-piracy is going wrong
Pirate hijackings off the coast of Africa have spawned a lucrative protection industry. With private security guards taking to the oceans in ever increasing numbers, Hazel Healy asks whether this is really the way to ‘safer seas’.
Obama’s ‘free trade’ voyages are another big mistake
New agreements that enhance corporate power are bad news, writes Mark Engler.
The clout of the arms industry
The arms trade tends to have the government's ear. Why, wonders Dinyar Godrej, when it is so counter-productive?
The shadow world: corruption in the arms trade
Andrew Feinstein examines the corrupt networks of arms deals.
Should foreign investment replace aid for Africa?
Donu Kogbara and Dereje Alemayehu go head to head - join the debate in this month's Argument.
The Great Rebellion
The Great Recession may have stunned the Minority World, but the Majority World has survived more or less unscathed. David Ransom investigates why, and traces the outlines of a future that might just be worth having.
Stop the tar sands trade talks
A protest against opening the EU's doors to Canada's polluting tar sands
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