Financial markets can’t be trusted to solve pandemics
Blog / 11th March 2020If the coronavirus has any positive impact, let it prompt us to learn the limitations of the market and the urgent need for regulation, taxation and public services, says Nick Dearden for Al Jazeera.
Social protection necessary to quickly end poverty, hunger
Blog / 6th March 2020Social protection is a universal human right, and governments have the tools at their disposal to end hunger and poverty sustainably. Yet the majority of humanity remain unprotected, explain Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury.
Reimagining democratic public ownership for the twenty-first century
Blog / 28th February 2020A new transatlantic project will explore how new models of public ownership can shape the emerging commanding heights of the economy. By Thomas Hanna and Mathew Lawrence.
‘America in a state of denial about the level of poverty in this country,’ says Ocasio-Cortez
Blog / 7th February 2020In testimony to a House committee this week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez argued that the current U.S. administration does not want to recognise the level of poverty in America “because if we did, it would be a national scandal.”
Ballooning debt forces poor countries to cut public spending
Blog / 13th January 2020Poorer countries are cutting public spending in response to a “growing debt crisis”, campaigners have warned.