Africa’s Faustian Bargain with the IMF

Decades of IMF interventions have locked African nations into cycles of debt, austerity, and economic dependency, stifling real development while reinforcing neocolonial control over the continent’s financial sovereignty.

Africa’s Faustian Bargain with the International Monetary Fund | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research

Bandung at 70

The Bandung Conference was a turning point in anti-colonial and South-South solidarity; it gave voice to newly independent nations and laid the groundwork for the Non-Aligned Movement.

70th Anniversary of the Bandung Conference | Focus on the Global South

Whatever happened to the Power Elite?

The trio of interests atop business, military, and government depicted in C. Wright Mills’s postwar critique is no longer united in setting the national agenda.

Whatever Happened to the Power Elite? | The New Republic

Change Course Now!

Only international justice can create social security

Change Course Now! Only International Justice Can Create Social Security

How the billionaire boom is fueling inequality

As wealth concentrates at the top, Europe must act now to defend democracy and economic stability for all.

How the Billionaire Boom Is Fueling Inequality—and Threatening Democracy

Leaving the WHO? The US shot itself in the foot

At the start of his second term, United States president Donald Trump
has again announced that the US will formally leave the World Health
Organization (WHO) in 2025. Leaving the WHO is a financial blow to the
Organization, as many have pointed out, but it is much more than that.
Trump’s decision to abandon WHO is counterproductive and puts at
risk the capacity of the organization to perform its role as the global
health agency. The WHO has been central to responding to global
health emergencies for more than seven decades.

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On the road to Sevilla and FfD4

The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) – due to be held next month in Sevilla– aims to drive forward critical reforms to the international financial architecture and to help close the significant financing gap for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, the fourth and final preparatory committee (PrepCom) meeting, held at the end of April at the UN headquarters in New York, revealed the remaining points of contention. As informal negotiations continue over the next few weeks, the journey promises to be challenging. Instead of the hoped-for final sprint towards an ambitious new global financing framework adopted by consensus, the road ahead resembles an obstacle race.

Hurdles on the way to Sevilla | Global Policy Forum

What do aid recipients want?

  • This research investigates what factors of foreign aid affect public attitudes toward foreign aid in recipient countries.
  • Using conjoint experiments in seven recipient countries, we found people prefer aid from democratic and transparent donors.

What do aid recipients want? Public attitudes toward foreign aid in developing countries – ScienceDirect

Millionaires don’t flee taxes

Increasing state taxes on the wealthy raised revenue without triggering millionaire flight, a new study found.

Millionaires Don’t Flee States Over Higher Taxes – Inequality.org

Sweden’s welfare experiment: a warning to Europe

Sweden pioneered welfare privatisation, and its controversial model is now being exported across the continent.

How Sweden’s Welfare Experiment Became a Warning to Europe

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