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The Great Pause
Blog / 12th April 2020The coronavirus has brought our economy to a standstill. But instead of rebuilding a broken system, we must explore how we can build back better, write Amanda Janoo and Gemma Bone Dodds for OpenDemocracy WellbeingEconomy.org.
Coronavirus could turn back the clock 30 years on global poverty
News / 12th April 2020The economic impact of the global shutdown could push half a billion people into privation, researchers warn.
As coronavirus spreads to poorer countries, here’s how the world can help
Blog / 6th April 2020The time has come for a massively ambitious plan to overcome the impacts of the coronavirus crisis in developing countries, and on a scale we’ve never seen before in our lifetimes. By Chema Vera from Oxfam International.
Call to the G20 to invest in healthcare instead of militarisation
Article / 2nd April 2020Sign a petition from the International Peace Bureau (IPB) calling for a dramatic reduction of military spending in favour of healthcare and meeting social needs.
Billionaire wealth just shrunk, but Coronavirus is no great leveller
Blog / 23rd March 2020While the world's richest have seen a dip in their stock holdings, those on the bottom of the wealth scale will bear the heaviest burden of the crisis, writes Max Lawson for inequality.org.
Urgent call to head off new debt crisis in developing world
News / 23rd March 2020Rapid action is needed to head off the risk of a new debt crisis in the world’s poorest countries amid evidence that the Covid-19 pandemic is raising borrowing costs and hitting commodity exports, according to a leading campaign group.
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.
Out of service: How public services and human rights are being threatened by the growing debt crisis
Report / 11th March 2020Public services play a critical role in advancing human rights and fighting inequality. But growing levels of external public debt threaten the very services on which citizens depend in order to have even a basic standard of living, explains a report by Eurodad.
World ‘way off track’ on climate targets, UN experts warn after five hottest years on record
News / 11th March 2020The world is "way off track" from meeting targets to limit global warming as the signs of a climate emergency grow more damaging, the United Nations has warned.
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.