Isabel Ortiz GSJ

📢 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:
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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

Summer 2025 - Bretton Woods Project This edition covers the Jubilee Year 2025 and calls at FfD4 to break the cycle of debt, IMF's Surveillance review, IDA21 package, Argentina, Sri Lanka and the IMF, and more.

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 🔥👇

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A large, diverse crowd of protesters gathers beneath las Setas in Seville, Spain, holding colorful signs and banners advocating for economic justice, climate action, and global equity. Prominent signs include messages like "Dignity Not Debt" and "Global Economic Justice Now." A large inflatable globe is also visible. Overlaid at the top of the image is bold white text reading: "FfD4: JOB NOT DONE!"

#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...

The Welfare State and Its Discontents | Daniela Gabor A dispatch from Financing for Development in Seville

"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

Dirty money’s hiding spots: How corruption funds disappear overseas -… How dirty money disappears overseas and corruption-linked African assets are hidden in wealthy nations

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...

Financing for Whom? The Financing for Development Summit Must Address Social Dimensions NEW YORK, Apr 24 (IPS) - The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) will bring world leaders together to forge a new international consensus on how to finance a better fu...

www.globalissues.org/news/2025/04...

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

A Tax Victory for Multinationals Over People Joseph E. Stiglitz, José Antonio Ocampo and Jayati Ghosh lament the G7’s decision to exempt US corporations from the global minimum tax rate agreed in 2021.

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

The Illusion of Consensus: FfD4 and the Fight for Systemic Change - menafem movement The outcome document of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) was adopted yesterday in a moment that is already being framed as a triumph of multilateralism. It wasn’...

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!

Inequality, Part IV: Oligarchs The rise of mega-fortunes

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

Starmer urged to attend UN summit and back plans to tackle global debt crisis Charity leaders want PM to attend FfD4 conference amid claims UK and US among countries blocking reforms

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

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June 2025 global poverty update from the World Bank: 2021 PPPs and new country-data The Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) updated global poverty estimates up to 2023, including nowcasted estimates up to 2025. The update includes new survey data for several country-years, adoption...

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
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The 2025 World Social Summit Must Not Be a Missed Opportunity Rumors circulating at UN Headquarters suggest there is little appetite for ambition at the Second World Summit for Social Development, set to take place in Doha on 4-6 November 2025. Diplomats and ins...

🆘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...
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The 2025 World Social Summit Must Not Be a Missed Opportunity Rumors circulating at UN Headquarters suggest there is little appetite for ambition at the Second World Summit for Social Development, set to take place in Doha on 4-6 November 2025. Diplomats and ins...

🆘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...

New scientific publication confirms glyphosate causes cancer at EU “safe” exposure levels – evidence ignored in EU reapproval Long-term exposure to glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides causes cancer in laboratory animals at doses deemed “safe” by EU authorities, according to a new landmark publication. Despite early wa...

🚨 Alarming results: cancer risk of #glyphosate much higher than expected, even at doses considered safe by the EU and national authorities.
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