What do aid recipients want?

  • This research investigates what factors of foreign aid affect public attitudes toward foreign aid in recipient countries.
  • Using conjoint experiments in seven recipient countries, we found people prefer aid from democratic and transparent donors.

What do aid recipients want? Public attitudes toward foreign aid in developing countries – ScienceDirect

Millionaires don’t flee taxes

Increasing state taxes on the wealthy raised revenue without triggering millionaire flight, a new study found.

Millionaires Don’t Flee States Over Higher Taxes – Inequality.org

Sweden’s welfare experiment: a warning to Europe

Sweden pioneered welfare privatisation, and its controversial model is now being exported across the continent.

How Sweden’s Welfare Experiment Became a Warning to Europe

Minimum wage report 2025

The trend towards significant nominal minimum wage increases is continuing this year. In view of
falling inflation rates, this translates into a sizeable increase in purchasing power for minimum wage
earners in most European countries. The back ground to this is the implementation of the Euro
pean Minimum Wage Directive.

Publikation Nr. 100e, April 2025

The US is becoming the largest tax haven

as Joseph Stiglitz explains in this article:

America Is Becoming the World’s Largest Tax Haven by Joseph E. Stiglitz – Project Syndicate

IMF member States …

and their relative voting power:

IMF Voting Power 2025 | Tableau Public

Financing for whom?

At the UN Conference on Financing for Development, the social dimension should be on top.

Financing for Whom? The Financing for Development Summit Must Address Social Dimensions | Inter Press Service

The World Bank at 80!

What are the true goals of multilateral Cooperation and Development?

The World Bank, at 80, and the True Goals of Multilateral Cooperation and Global Development | Inter Press Service

Towards the eradication of poverty

Eradicating poverty is a political choice

eapn-POSITION_PAPER_TOWARDS_ERADICATION_POVERTY_EAPN-6139.pdf

Redefine our common security

The Common Security Conference 2025 brought together global leaders, trade unionists, academics and peace advocates in the face of rising global tensions.

Common Security 2025: Redefining security for the 21st Century – International Trade Union Confederation

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