For a new International Financial Architecture

The international financial architecture is in urgent need of reform. In the words of UN Secretary-General António Guterres, it is “outdated, dysfunctional and unjust”. The main institutions were created 80 years ago in a transatlantic agreement, at a time when many of the world’s nation-states of today were still colonies. Moreover, the institutions have failed in their mission to prevent and mitigate crises and to mobilize sufficient financing for internationally agreed development goals.

Reimagining the International Financial Architecture | Global Policy Forum

Western Finance Ruins Economies

Western financial policies have been squeezing economies worldwide. After being urged to borrow commercial finance heavily, developing countries now struggle with contractionary Western monetary policies.

Western Finance Ruining Economies of the Rest | Inter Press Service

The minimum wage controversy

What is the discussion about? Will the EU directive be implemented?

Germany’s Minimum Wage Controversy: Will the EU Directive Be Enforced?

Austerity, the wrong medicine

In favour of a bold investment policy in the EU

Austerity déjà vu: the return of the wrong economic medicine

Labour Shortages in Europe

an opportunity for more and better collective bargaining?

Labour shortages – an opportunity to rebalance bargaining power?

Climate finance, reparations and human rights

In order to understand the very clear links between different topics …

Key_Concepts_-_Climate_Finance_Reparations_and_Human_Rights.pdf

On the urgent need for debt cancellation

Debt swaps for climate and conservation goals have experienced a resurgence in recent years. As COP29 negotiations kick off, they are presented as a dual solution for debt and climate issues, however they fall short in practice and pose risks that threaten to harm global south countries and communities. This briefing explains why instead of debt swaps, we need urgent debt cancellation and grant-based climate finance.

Debt swaps won’t save us: the urgent need for debt cancellation and grant-based climate finance – Eurodad

Why did Trump win?

It has so much to do with the major topic of this website …

Why Did Trump Really Win? It’s Simple, Actually. – Mother Jones

Trump’s war on planet Earth

and how to stop it with a progressive revolution…

Trump has pledged to wage war on planet Earth – and it will take a progressive revolution to stop him | George Monbiot | The Guardian

World Inequality still Rising

Despite earlier income convergence among nations, many low-income countries (LICs) and people are falling further behind. Worse, the number of poor and hungry has been increasing again after declining for decades.

World Inequality Still Rising Despite Some Convergence | Inter Press Service

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