Global Governance Reimagined

New ideas on Development, Debt and decision-making

Global Governance Reimagined

Dying Multilateralism

Walden Bello on the US, WTO and BRICS

https://countercurrents.org/2025/07/on-a-dying-multilateralism-what-can-replace-the-global-order/

Even Sky-High Income Tax Rates Won’t Stop the Relentless Rise of the Richest

Tackling America’s wealth gap will require more powerful tactics.

Even Sky-High Income Tax Rates Won’t Stop the Relentless Rise of the Richest – Mother Jones

Financing Development, Not Oligarchy

What the richest 1 % of this world gained in wealth since 2015 is enough to eradicate poverty 22 – twenty-two! – times

Brief – From Private Profit to Public Power EN.pdf

New Oxfam Report:

Blaming the Poor …

… while the rich sneak off with the welfare

Opinion | Blaming the Poor While the Rich Sneak Off With the Welfare | Common Dreams

UN Summit on Financing for Development

Ambitious UN Financing for Development outcome derailed by global north

Ambitious UN Financing for Development outcome derailed by global north – Eurodad

New report on extreme poverty

New report of the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights

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Strong commitments, little achievement

Only 17 percent of sustainable development goals (SDG) targets are on track for 2030, according to the Sustainable Development Report 2025 (SDR) released today by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)

Ten years since the adoption of the SDGs, progress remains alarmingly off-track. The five targets showing significant reversal in progress since 2015 include obesity rate (SDG 2), press freedom (SDG 16), sustainable nitrogen management (SDG 2), the red list index (SDG 15), which shows continuing deterioration in terms of species extinction risk around the world, and the corruption perception index (SDG 16).

Despite Strong Commitment, SDGs Progress Alarmingly Off Track | Inter Press Service

Minimum wages and collective bargaining

New research shows that national minimum wage increases are effectively boosting the pay of low-paid workers while preserving the crucial role of collective bargaining processes.

Impact of national minimum wages on collective bargaining and wages for low-paid workers | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

The World Bank does not learn its own lessons (part 2)

Part 1 of this blog – available at the Development Pathways website – argued that the World Bank’s long-term advocacy of poverty targeted schemes as the basis for the tax-financed side of social protection systems contradicts messages from its own research. This blog argues that the World Bank’s promotion of social registries also contradicts the organisation’s own research, this time into the COVID-19 pandemic.

The World Bank’s ‘State of Social Protection Report 2025: The 2-Billion Person Challenge’ shows that it is not learning its own lessons – Part 2 – www.socialprotectionfloorscoalition.org

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