Can the IMF and the World Bank really be changed?
Blog / 1st February 2024A geopolitical bias, outdated governance and a too market-oriented framework are only some of the structural deficits of these institutions, writes Jayati Ghosh.
Universal health coverage stalls while financial protection goes backwards
Blog / 26th January 2024Is the World Health Organisation contributing to the reinvention of structural adjustment? The People’s Health Movement comments on the latest WHO Global Health Governance Report.
Fighting inequality: The untapped potential of human rights
Blog / 21st December 2023As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 75, we must delve deeper into the many powerful ways in which human rights can end poverty discrimination and address economic inequality, writes Olivier De Schutter.
At COP28, it’s time to transform the global financial architecture
Blog / 11th December 2023The global finance system is giving fossil fuels a lifeline, indebting vulnerable countries and delaying a just energy transition, writes Bronwen Tucker and Shereen Talaat for Oil Change International.
Put the UN in charge of international taxation
Blog / 22nd November 2023Almost a decade of multilateral negotiations on a global tax treaty at the OECD has yielded insufficient progress. The question to be decided this week is whether the United States and the European Union will see the light and support a different approach.