The UN Intergovernmental Committee on International Tax Cooperation has adopted, with the support of a large majority of member states, a Terms of Reference (ToR) that is the blueprint for developing the convention. Negotiations based on the ToR are planned over the next three years and should result in the adoption of a UN Global Tax Convention expected in 2027.
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UN DESA presented the key messages and recommendations of the World Social Report 2024: Social Development in Times of Converging Crises: A Call for Global Action. Since the First World Summit for Social Development held in Copenhagen in 1995, progress has been made across the world in realizing social development objectives such as poverty eradication, full employment, and inclusion. However, many gaps and challenges remained, even as recently as five years back. Today, amid a confluence of shocks and crises, less than a fifth of the SDG targets are on track, with nearly a half showing insufficient progress, and over a third that are stalled or in reversal.
World Social Report 2024 | Department of Economic and Social Affairs (un.org)
When history repeats itself, the first time is a tragedy; the next is a farce. If we fail to learn from past financial crises, we risk making avoidable errors, often with irreversible, even tragic consequences.
Handling Financial Crises in the South | Inter Press Service (ipsnews.net)
A proposal for a useful reform of the charities sector in the US, with benefits for good work and for tax incomes
What Could Our Working Charities Do With $339 Billion? Let’s Find Out. – Inequality.org
What are the priorities in the preparation of this important summit?
Progress in poverty reduction, a first step towards eradication, is fragile …
How the crypto industry shapes democracy … worse than mafia practices of the past
The mothers and daughters of the global south cannot celebrate the World Bank’s 80-year legacy of harm.
Opinion: Why we cannot celebrate the World Bank’s 80-year anniversary | Devex
Why inequality must go, fifteen years after Wilkinson & Pickett’s classical
From the UK, a New Reminder Why Inequality Must Go – Inequality.org
The United Nations Trade and Development (UNCTAD) celebrated its 60th anniversary in June 2024 in Geneva, holding a high-level Global Leaders Forum that brought together ministers, officials and experts to discuss the multidimensional challenges facing countries, and strategies for advancing the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It highlighted the need for innovative solutions to address current global crises that can promote resilience, economic growth and sustainable development.
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