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As we enter 2021 and wish each other a Happy New Year, the arrival of Covid-19 vaccines is a good reason for optimism regarding humanity’s most immediate threat. Unfortunately, when it comes to our most urgent long-term danger – climate change – there is no vaccine, no bright path before us in the months to come. There is instead what UN Secretary General António Guterres called last month our ‘broken planet’ and our continuing “suicidal…war on nature.”[1]
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As G20 world leaders meet, it is time for a fundamental overhaul of global investment policy to build for the future. That future depends on public services and the people who provide them. Crisis has brought recognition to “front-line” workers, public and private, who are both visible and essential. However, all workers are essential.
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Within the framework of a profoundly sexist culture, the phenomenon of gender-based violence is linked to violence against women, children and adolescents, particularly those from the poorest sectors of society and those belonging to indigenous communities. Paraguay has one of the highest rates of child sexual abuse in South America: one case every three hours. About 650 girls between the ages of 10 and 14 become pregnant each year. And femicide, like domestic violence in general, is increasing every year.
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The World Intellectual Property Organization’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights meets this week against the backdrop of a global health crisis that has fundamentally changed the way we teach and learn. Now copyright law must catch up.
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In Southern Europe, we are immersed in a deep financial crisis. This is largely due to greed within the banking sector in this hyper-liberalised financial system, a growth model highly dependent on speculation and the 'bad government' prevalent in the region that has tolerated, if not pro-actively f...
Read MoreIn a recent speech in Washington on "Back to Rio - the Road to a Sustainable Economic Future", IMF managing director Christine Lagarde cited recent IMF research showing that "countries with more equitable distributions of income are associated with greater macroeconomic stability and more sustainabl...
Read MoreThe mid-2102 update of the "UN World Economic Situation and Prospects" report, released last Friday, identifies the euro area debt crisis as the biggest threat to the global economy. The update revises downwards the report's earlier economic growth forecasts for 2012. It states that globally "unempl...
Read MoreThe World Bank's new "Global Economic Prospects" publication forecasts slower growth for almost all developing regions in 2012 because of protracted instability in the Euro area. The reports attributes its expectation of lower growth in developing regions to a series of factors associated with the e...
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