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Friday, February 2, 2024

Alan Roberts (South Africa)

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    I made a short film about my friend Alan Roberts (he died a few days ago), in which he says things about South Africa that apply to simi...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

THE BIG ROUGH SEA - WORLD PORTS AND GLOBALIZATION (De grote wilde vaart - Wereldhavens en globalisering)

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  THE BIG ROUGH SEA - WORLD PORTS AND GLOBALIZATION / PORTS MONDIAUX ET MONDIALISATION De grote wilde vaart - Wereldhavens en globalisering ...
Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Alexandria - Port and City (film by Jan Joost Teunissen)

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Alexandria is the largest port in Egypt, handling around 60 percent of Egypt's foreign trade. It was founded by Alexander the Great who...
Friday, March 25, 2022

“Why should we have listened better to Robert Triffin?”

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Speech by Jan Joost Teunissen at conference, “The economic and financial crisi...
Thursday, March 17, 2022

China and Russia will speed up Reform of the International Monetary System

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Dear readers, An effect not anticipated by NATO policy makers is that China and Russia will speed up Reform of the...
Saturday, January 1, 2022

I cried over the death of Robert Triffin

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Robert Triffin is the only economist in my work circle for whom I cried, with real tears that broke from my eyes and rolled down my cheeks,...
Thursday, December 30, 2021

Why should we have listened better to Robert Triffin?

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I wrote the following to my friends of the Fondad Group:  Dear friends, I would like to add this speech to my previous message: “W...
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jan joost teunissen
As a kid I liked numbers and the sound of strings. I considered studying engineering but chose social sciences because of my interest in people. I combine a theoretical interest with a practical, social approach which brought me to the sphere of policy research. I am interested in reducing the disparity between poor and rich, between the powerful and the less powerful. In 1973 and 1982 I lived in Latin America. In the mid-1980s, I was able to create an international forum to discuss the functioning of the international monetary system and the debt crisis, the Forum on Debt and Development (FONDAD). I established it with the view that the debt crisis of the 1980s was a symptom of a malfunctioning, flawed global monetary and financial system. I was one of the driving forces behind the creation of the European Network on Debt and Development that was established at the end of the 1980s to help put pressure on European policymakers. In 1990, before the beginning of the Gulf War, I cofounded the Golfgroep, a discussion group about international politics comprising journalists, scientists, politicians and activists that meets regularly. The website of FONDAD is www.fondad.org
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