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Hundreds of Millions are Dying of Hunger

Enough food is produced to meet the needs of 11 billion people. Why do so many of the 8 billion people on the planet go hungry?

Hundreds of Millions Are Dying of Hunger: The Twenty-Second Newsletter (2025) | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research

The World Social Summit should not be a missed opportunity

Rumors circulating at UN Headquarters suggest there is little appetite for ambition at the Second World Summit for Social Development, set to take place in Doha on 4-6 November 2025. Diplomats and insiders whisper of “summit fatigue”.

The 2025 World Social Summit Must Not Be a Missed Opportunity | Inter Press Service

Philanthropy and the Koch fleet

Charles Koch’s fleet of organizations spent a combined net total of $833 million in 2023 to influence public policy, elections, and certain charitable causes, such as education — marking its highest spending total to date.

Koch Fleet of Organizations Invests More Than Ever in Expanding Its Influence – EXPOSEDbyCMD

Global Gateway to Nowhere

European development aid has entered a new phase of the European Union’s neocolonialist agenda. Its “Global Gateway” plan is a wishlist for infrastructure projects to be launched across the world by European companies, backed by liberal reforms to pave the way. At its heart: Africa, where at least half of all investments are set to land.

The global gateway to nowhere

Minimum wages climbing…

in Central and Eastern Europe, closing the gap with rich countries

Closing the Chasm: Central and Eastern Europe’s Continued Minimum Wage Climb

How the IMF underdevelops Africa

Once plundered of both its wealth and people by colonial powers, Africa now faces IMF-imposed austerity, obscene debt, and forced underdevelopment.

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On Wealth Inequality and Life Expectancy

The more equal your country is, the longer you live …

Inequality and Health – Inequality.org

On the World Bank’s Social Protection Report

Insights and repeated errors …

The World Bank’s State of Social Protection Report 2025: The 2-Billion Person Challenge shows that it is not learning its own lessons – Development Pathways

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

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