The story holds that the rich nations of the OECD give generously of their wealth to the poorer nations of the global south, to help them eradicate poverty and push them up the development ladder. This story is so widely propagated by the aid industry and the governments of the...
Debunking The Gates Foundation Narrative Project, Featured, It's The World Vs. The Bank, Money, Power, The story of poverty
With a little help from Bill Gates, the World Bank creates a new aid conditionality
With $43.5 billion in assets, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is a major player in the field of international aid. Seated next to the World Bank President, Bill Gates, the former CEO of Microsoft, outlined three game-changers to ensure development. First, donors need to be constant in their...
Growth for growth’s sake is the poison in the well; the fatal flaw that is leading us over the cliff of environmental and social catastrophe. Given how central this problem is to the future, it amounts to a dereliction of duty by those responsible. It is now up to the...
In the mainstream narrative of international development peddled by institutions from the World Bank to the UK’s Department of International Development, the history of colonialism is routinely erased
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.
The UN’s new Sustainable Development Goals aim to save the world without transforming it.
As we counter the story the establishment is telling about the sustainable development process, here are articles that support tell the true story of poverty and development.
‘Development’ has failed to deliver. The reason, Jason Hickel argues, is that development organisations have failed to address the structural drivers of poverty
I used to work in the aid business. For about ten years. I loved it for most of that time. But I gradually lost faith with the basic premise; that aid and charity are anything like solutions to all the problems the big aid agencies say they want to solve:...
Almost every day there is a news story that tells us that economic inequality has reached an all time high. The wealth gap is becoming a chasm. How did we get here? What is it that has made our world so unequal?
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