New ideas on Development, Debt and decision-making
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Walden Bello on the US, WTO and BRICS
https://countercurrents.org/2025/07/on-a-dying-multilateralism-what-can-replace-the-global-order/
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
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:
… while the rich sneak off with the welfare
Opinion | Blaming the Poor While the Rich Sneak Off With the Welfare | Common Dreams
Ambitious UN Financing for Development outcome derailed by global north
Ambitious UN Financing for Development outcome derailed by global north – Eurodad
New report of the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
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
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.
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