An alluring cast of speakers including the First Lady Michelle Obama, Queen Rania of Jordan, John Kerry, and Ban Ki-moon, among others, spoke at last week’s World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington DC. Bill Gates was the guest star of the Bank’s final live-cast panel...
If we can spread the idea that poverty is created, we can help expose the causes of poverty and #inequality, and create awareness that we need to change the rules of neoliberal #capitalism, not just provide a little bit of palliative care. Here are three articles to...
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The article originally appeared on Common Dreams on 16th March 2015. Reach the author on Twitter at: @martinkirk_ny. The United Nations, large NGOs and lots of big corporations are gearing up to tell the world that we can eradicate global poverty by 2030. As a...
Originally published in Truthout as ‘Beware the Best of Times’. As the Davos class head off from their annual get together in Switzerland, it’s a good time for a quick stocktaking of the stories we’re told about global affairs. There are,...
