Global Policy UN Watch 2024 No.10
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Economic justice, GPUNW
Debt
GPUNW, People-centered Multilateralism
Global Policy UN Watch 2024 No. 7
Global Policy UN Watch No.7 | 2024 Divergent views on the Ministerial Declaration for the High-Level Political Forum
Articles, GPUNW
Global Policy UN Watch 2024 No. 6
Global Policy UN Watch 2024 No. 6 – Global Policy Forum SOTF, UNSC, Human Rights, Debt, C5, UN Funding, QCPR,
Articles, Economic justice
State of emergency: UN convenes Financing Forum while a new wave of debt crises threatens to derail sustainable development
By Bodo Ellmers and Tove Ryding
This week, governments will meet at the United Nations in New York for the Financing for Development Forum, and the challenge is very clear. Too little progress has been made towards achieving the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs), which to a large extent is the consequence of lacking finance. The 2015 Addis Ababa Action Agenda, a UN framework adopted at the same time as the SDGs, which is supposed to ensure money flows toward development and the achievement of the SDGs, is not fulfilling its objective. Read more…
Articles, Economic justice, Sustainable development, social justice and sustainable peace
Responding to Systemic Issues to Achieve Industrialization and Development
In the Roundtable Discussion “Systemic Issues, including Global Economic Governance and External Debt” that took place in the framework of the UN General Assembly Hearings with Civil Society in preparation for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development Marina Durano, member of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, said that we need to respond to volatile flows of finance that become external sources of instability for open economies. Colleagues have already spoken about unpredictable aid flows. We need to take a critical look at investment capital that search for gains from interest rate or currency arbitrage brought on by very loose monetary policies of developed countries. These flows affect the value of developing country currencies as well as prices in their assets markets.