The U.N. development forum ending on Thursday brings to mind the aspiration that Colombia’s President Petro expressed last year for humanity to “live far from the apocalypse and times of extinction.”
Vijay Prashad: Paying For War or Peace
Tag: Sustainable Development Goals
The UN & War in Ukraine
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies highlight a few of the numerous speeches urging diplomatic resolution of the war at this year’s General Assembly.
The World Bank’s Way of Tracking Inequality
“Leaving the rich out of the equation.” Sam Pizzigati reports on the protest by economists worldwide against the World Bank’s “shared prosperity” method of tracking gaps in income and wealth.
World Needs New Way to Develop
No effective general theoretical orientation has been provided to guide realistic and holistic development agendas, writes Vijay Prashad. And no outlines seem readily available for an exit from the permanent debt-austerity cycle.
World Bank Seems to Finally Get It
A new World Bank report says hundreds of billions of dollars of subsidies to energy producers need to be used instead to “ensure a green and just transition.”
Money for Weapons as the Planet Burns
Vijay Prashad reflects on the social wealth being wasted in the name of defending U.S. hegemony.