As the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank gather for their 2025 Spring Meetings under the theme “Jobs – the Path to Prosperity”, global unions are raising the alarm over the return to austerity policies that undermine prosperity and decent work.
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The first drop in ODA since 2017 sounds alarm bells for the future of aid, as new figures highlight a 7.1 per cent decrease
Aid crisis – new data sounds fresh alarm bells for the future – Eurodad
Against Trump, the oligarchs, the far right: Expressing resistance is an important start. Now, we have to organize.
What Will It Take for the Resistance to Win? – Inequality.org
- Review risks repeating past failures, with austerity-driven policies worsening inequality and economic hardship
- Civil society criticism highlights a lack of meaningful consultation, raising doubts about prospects of genuine reform
The IMF’s 2025 Conditionality Review: a test of reform or repeat?
- ‘Aid trap’ continues despite significant ODA cuts amidst political change in donor countries
- BWIs continue to facilitate financialisation of essential services across Africa, deepening dependency trap and compromising sovereignty
As right-wing populism and the far right challenge democratic norms, trade unions are poised to defend the institutions that bind society together.
Democracy Under Siege: Trade Unions Rise as a Bulwark Against the Far Right
Consumers are nervous, and with stock portfolios down and corporations slashing investment, demand will take a hit. Roughly half of spending comes from the wealthy in America, and they are the ones who can immediately cut expenditures, and will do so when stocks decline.
Reducing global inequality and saving the planet from climate catastrophe are intertwined. Let’s address both at once.
More than half of the target population has not been able to access a lifesaving South African social assistance transfer aimed at alleviating extreme poverty amongst working-age adults.
Today, more people have access to social protection now than at any point in history. Over the last decade, 4.7 billion people across low- and middle-income countries gained access to social protection. However, critical gaps remain. Two billion people in those countries remain uncovered or inadequately covered by social protection.
The State of Social Protection Report 2025: The 2-Billion-Person Challenge documents advances and challenges to strengthening social protection and labor systems across low- and middle-income countries and discusses avenues to gradually close the coverage and adequacy gap for the world’s poorest.
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