FfD4 2025: a beacon of hope?

Today we live in a world that is facing a precarious future, torn apart by inequality, conflicts and a deep ecological crisis. The changes in governments in 2024 – the biggest election year in history – gave little hope for the action needed to address these existential issues. The pendulum seems set to continue its swing to the right in 2025. Everybody is holding their breath when it comes to the foreign policy of the new US administration and how this will impact global affairs, as geopolitical divisions are likely to be accentuated. The global climate and economic justice agenda also stands to be affected by this.

FfD4: A beacon of hope for international financial architecture reform in 2025 – Eurodad

For a Global Minimum Wage

The rich are growing astronomically richer while poverty reduction has ground to a standstill.

A Global Minimum Wage Would Reduce Poverty and Corporate Power – Inequality.org

On the Upcoming Financing for Development Conference

The forthcoming fourth United Nations Financing for Development conference must address developing countries’ major financial challenges. Recent setbacks to sustainable development and climate action make FfD4 all the more critical.

Current Financing for Development Priorities Today | Inter Press Service

Global progress in a crumbling world

Who can offer some hope?

Glimmers of global progress in a crumbling world

Welfare States and the capacity to compete

Rather than a ‘burden on the taxpayer’, the welfare state should be understood in normative terms as productive social investment.

The capacity to ‘compete’—rethinking the welfare state

Eurofound is 50 years old!

Read here what it achieved and can still do for social Europe

Fifty years supporting better policies for a strong social Europe

The problem with health insurance in the US

a private market …

America’s Health Insurance Grinches: A Scathing Indictment of “Market” Economics | Institute for New Economic Thinking

2024

2024 was a good year for billionaires, except in China:

Global Inequality – Inequality.org

Make Amazon Pay!

Amazon workers and their union, the Teamsters, launched the largest strike against Amazon in US history this week. Amazon workers in Germany and members of the union ver.di announced they will strike along with their US counterparts. The nationwide US action follows Amazon’s repeated refusal to follow the law and bargain with the thousands of Amazon workers who organised with the Teamsters.

PI Briefing | No. 48 | Teamsters Make Amazon Pay | Progressive International

AI and energy demands

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence systems is precipitating an environmentally problematic spike in data center construction.

AI’s Energy Demands Are Fueling the Climate Crisis – Inequality.org

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