📢 The welfare state is under pressure globally. Cuts to social services are rising while 2 billion people live without protection. From poverty, inequality to #ClimateChange + migration, can #WSSD2 in Doha this Nov tackle the biggest challenges of our time? 👉 www.globalpolicy.org/en/news/2025...

🌍 What does #SocialDevelopment mean in the 21st century? UNRISD launches Beyond Copenhagen—a new think piece series rethinking justice, policy and progress ahead of #WSSD in Qatar. Start here: www.unrisd.org/beyond-copen...

Happening now: The Initiative for Policy Dialogue’s 25th Anniversary Conference at Columbia University. Scholars, policymakers, and practitioners are gathering to reflect on 25 years of research and impact. #IPD25 Watch the livestream here: gsb-columbia-edu.zoom.us/j/9536714802...

Just created my first Feed on the global south: bsky.app/profile/did:... Matches any post with #GlobalSouth hashtag, or the phrase "global south", or from my also recently created Global South list: bsky.app/profile/did:... Please follow/share. Also let me know of people/orgs to add to the List.

From The Visible Hands 👉 ow.ly/Ve3550WE8c2 to Targeting&Universalism 👉 ow.ly/bmt050WE8c5, we celebrate 62 years of #IdeasThatShape generations. Thanks @isabelortiz.bsky.social to reminds us why innovative research matters, not just for now, but for the future. #UNRISD62

Our new #ObserverSummer25 is out now🚀 This edition covers civil society demands of unconditional debt relief in #Jubilee2025, IMF's upcoming surveillance review, World Bank's billions to trillions 'fantasy', Sri Lanka, Argentina & the IMF, #FFD4, and more 🔥👇 tinyurl.com/ObserverSumm...

#FfD4 is far from the milestone for global economic governance reform it could have been. For #CivilSociety, it's clear that the job is not done. We need real reform, not a watered-down consensus. Read our analysis 👉 www.eurodad.org/ffd4_job_not...

"A document that examines in detail the foreign and domestic, public and private resources that could finance development does not consider, not even once, the most important institution of public money creation: the central bank." NEW by @danielagabor.bsky.social, third dispatch from FfD4.

Back from the disappointing UN Conference on Financing for Development #FfD4, with 50+ heads of state, high-level participants +6,000 private sector participants/lobbyists. The outcome doesn't have the level of ambition needed for current crises; often it perpetuates structural problems #FFD4People

1/ After nearly 3 years of research, our @hrw.org report "The Gig Trap" is finally out. It documents how companies like Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, Shipt, Favor, and Amazon Flex created a business model that undermines labor rights & deepens inequality in the US. A 🧵https://hrw.org/node/391214

Instead of building schools and hospitals, billions in public funds from Africa vanish into offshore accounts, luxury real estate and shell companies. We have analysed 78 cases, revealing where stolen funds end up. Check it out! ⬇️ https://buff.ly/3BoJPZ0

Why wouldn't we want multinational corporations to pay their share of taxes? It's mind-boggling. #FfD4

For a decade, we've been told blended finance would turn "billions into trillions." The reality? Just $15 billion annually—less than 0.4% of the $4 trillion needed for SDGs. My reflections from #FfD4 ➡️ open.substack.com/pub/marianam...

Back from the disappointing UN Conference on Financing for Development #FfD4, with 50+ heads of state, high-level participants +6,000 private sector participants/lobbyists. The outcome doesn't have the level of ambition needed for current crises; often it perpetuates structural problems #FFD4People

We can’t ignore the human rights impacts of budget cuts & austerity. As Attiya Waris put it: “There’s blood on the budget lines.” Check out her new think tank working to reimagine global financial governance: house-of-fiscal-wisdom.com

The G7’s decision to let US multinationals off the hook weakens even that the modest floor of a 15% global tax and sends the wrong message to the rest of the world. A @projectsyndicate.bsky.social piece with @jayatighosh.bsky.social and Jose Antonio Ocampo. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/g...

Powerful @endausterity.bsky.social panel at #FFD4 on alternatives to budget cuts for investing in universal social protection & public services. The most common austerity measure? Slashing social protection—replacing universal programs w narrow, means-tested safety nets. @isabelortiz.bsky.social

It was a great privilege to present our Jubilee Report on Sovereign Debt findings and recommendations to Cardinal Parolin. We look forward to the work we will continue to do to redesign global debt architecture. Countries must be able to strengthen critical areas like health and education.

Countries are hobbled by debt, funneling money to creditors instead of to health, education or infrastructure. @josephestiglitz.bsky.social and @martinguzman.bsky.social headed a Jubilee Commission report that suggests remedies. Worth a read or a watch

We exposes the illusion of consensus at the #FfD4 conference where multilateralism was not saved, but sanitized. From a U.Swalkout to behind-the-scenes sabotage by Global North allies, Read : 🔗 menafemmovement.org/the-illusion... #FfD4 #DebtJustice #TaxJustice #ClimateFinance #SystemicReform

📢 The UN’s new #FfD4 outcome doc is 38 pages of UN-speak. GPF Europe’s @bodoellmers.bsky.social breaks it down: 8 key takeaways on #DRM, private finance, trade, debt, data + more, focusing on what might actually lead to action. 🔗 www.globalpolicy.org/en/news/2025...

We're celebrating 23 June Public Service Day with an amazing photo from Turkiye! Genel-İş Council of Chairs took the opportunity to say #NoToAusterity on #PSDay2025! We'll defend public services - in Türkiye, in Europe and everywhere!

America's superrich emerged in two phases: predatory finance followed by quasi-monoplies based on network effects paulkrugman.substack.com/p/inequality...

NEW: 80+ NGO leaders, parliamentarians, economists & academics call for Keir Starmer to stop blocking critical debt reform, support measures to tackle debt crisis in lower-income countries and attend #FfD4 w/ @carladenyer.bsky.social & @jayatighosh.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

New World Bank #poverty data updated with 2021 PPPs: - Extreme poverty has gone from $2.15 a day to $3 a day - The higher poverty line from $6.85 to $8.30 - 125 million more extreme poor - 45% of the world is below the upper poverty line #GlobalSocialJustice blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/...

🆘Pls help disseminate🆘 As governments are currently negotiating a weak draft outcome of the 2025 World Social Summit, please help to disseminate these requests from civil society The #wssd2 must not be a missed opportunity @ipsnews.net #GlobalSocialJustice www.ipsnews.net/2025/05/2025...

📢 This ⏬ is what happened to UK #inequality since 1961. It soared in the 1980s under Thatcher and no UK govt has seriously tried to reverse it since - so, the centre cannot hold and things fall apart... ifs.org.uk/living-stand...

🆘Pls help disseminate🆘 As governments are currently negotiating a weak draft outcome of the 2025 World Social Summit, please help to disseminate these requests from civil society The #wssd2 must not be a missed opportunity @ipsnews.net #GlobalSocialJustice www.ipsnews.net/2025/05/2025...

🚨 Alarming results: cancer risk of #glyphosate much higher than expected, even at doses considered safe by the EU and national authorities. www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

🚨MYTH: lower taxes mean more jobs. FACT: @psiglobalunion.bsky.social report shows there's no link between low corporate tax rates & employment growth. "Fair corporate taxation is essential for sustainable development" Jose Antonio Ocampo. The report: publicservices.international/resources/di...

The #EU and #UK are stopping the global south from having a say by blocking UN-led #debt reform in #FfD4 outcome document. 👎 Our press release: www.eurodad.org/eu_and_uk_bl...

New World Bank #poverty data updated with 2021 PPPs: - Extreme poverty has gone from $2.15 a day to $3 a day - The higher poverty line from $6.85 to $8.30 - 125 million more extreme poor - 45% of the world is below the upper poverty line #GlobalSocialJustice blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/...

Had a good talk with Quino Petit of @elpais.com about where we are now. Tuve una buena conversación con Quinoa Petit de @elpais.com sobre dónde estamos ahora. elpais.com/comunicacion...

Platform workers face insecurity, low pay, and are excluded from social security while companies make billions. Binding ILO standards are crucial to ensure these precarious workers have decent jobs and are included in social security @lenasimet.bsky.social #ILC2025 www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...

🆘Pls help disseminate🆘 As governments are currently negotiating a weak draft outcome of the 2025 World Social Summit, please help to disseminate these requests from civil society The #wssd2 must not be a missed opportunity @ipsnews.net @gabrielekoehler.bsky.social www.ipsnews.net/2025/05/2025...

"Platform workers face insecurity, low pay, & are excluded from social security while companies make billions. Binding ILO standards are crucial to ensure workers have decent jobs and are included in social security systems." @isabelortiz.bsky.social #ILC2025 www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...

🌍 The 2025 World Social Summit must be a turning point — not another missed opportunity. Governments are meeting to discuss global development. But will they finally reject the austerity policies that have deepened poverty, inequality, and injustice? #WorldSocialSummit

The Second World Summit for Social Development is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for governments and the UN to remedy the grievous social malaise and lead a global recommitment to social justice and equity www.ipsnews.net/2025/05/2025...

130 countries in the #GlobalSouth are drowning in debt. 🌍 #FfD4 must deliver real #DebtReform — the EU’s current stance isn’t enough. It’s time for an #EraOfJustice. ✊ 📝 Sign the petition: eurodad.org/jubilee_2025...

The 2025 World Social Summit Must Not Be a Missed Opportunity

My op-ed yesterday in @thetimes.com Tariffs, of course. www.thetimes.com/article/8e80...

"Since Ronald Reagan, conservatives have claimed that tax cuts pay for themselves by boosting economic growth. But it didn’t work that way for Reagan, and it didn’t work that way for Trump during his first term." Read @josephestiglitz.bsky.social latest piece for @rooseveltinstitute.org

🆘Pls help disseminate🆘 As governments are currently negotiating a weak draft outcome of the 2025 World Social Summit, please help to disseminate these requests from civil society The #wssd2 must not be a missed opportunity @ipsnews.net @gabrielekoehler.bsky.social www.ipsnews.net/2025/05/2025...

Keynote for the Broligarchy. Trump's Big, Beautiful, Bill will raise taxes on poor Americans and raise costs for the rest of the working class, while disproportionately helping the richest 1% of Americans. Its redistribution of income function is breath-taking.

"I mentioned intergenerational equity: How do we think of this generation’s needs versus another’s? That’s about solidarity and justice; it’s about fairness." Read @josephestiglitz.bsky.social's interview with @clarkeatamerica.bsky.social www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

We welcome the @europarl.europa.eu #Development Committee's support for a #UNDebtConvention in today's historical #FfD4 vote. The UN is the only 🌍 institution with equal representation & can guarantee that creditors' interests aren't prioritised over the needs of millions of people! A 🧵

Rethinking how the state imagined, practiced and evaluated is at the heart of @iipp-ucl.bsky.social‬'s mission. Join us for our annual #RethinkingTheState Forum (18-20 June). Learn more ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

As austerity guts public services & deepens inequality, 60+ feminists will gather in #Rabat for the #GlobalFeministConvening 💜✊🏾🌱 Together we fight for #DebtJustice, #EconomicJustice & #ClimateJustice. @wedo-worldwide.bsky.social #EndAusterity #GlobalSolidarity

New Report: €100 Billion in Austerity Cuts Across Europe 🔎 Examples: 🇫🇷 France – €20B: public hiring freeze, cuts to healthcare 🇧🇪 Belgium – €12.3B: pensions & health 🇮🇹 Italy – €20B: social protection 🇪🇸 Spain – €6.5B: education & healthcare 🇷🇴 Romania – €6B: wage caps, tax hikes

Now out, a compilation of my writing on inequality and what we can do about it. Published by @oxfordunipress.bsky.social. Available to order and will ship on April 6: global.oup.com/academic/pro...