I’m enjoying the #polycrisis playing cards from glasgowactions

Adam Tooze Albert Pinto ONE Jonathan Glennie

Who’d have thought that a key innovation of the 2000s would be the live-streaming of drone strikes, destruction of cities & mutilation of thousands of defenseless women & babies.

Now we know: human civilizational progress is not linear, but swings back and forth like a pendulum

Kristalina Georgieva 3/. These weeks are moments when MP’s from across the world come together to share thoughts, ideas & debate about just reform now needs to head - and so thanks to david_mcnair Carnegie Endowment for superb explainer on some of the issues in play

carnegieendowment.org/2024/04/04/tom…

1/. Looking forward to welcoming 100’s of MP’s to The Parliamentary Network on the World Bank & IMF #IMF #WorldBank #SpringMeetings2024

Ahead of Monday’s kickoff, here’s some background reading, starting with a hugely impressive briefing from @worldbank President Ajay Banga on Bank reform

youtu.be/yjNZjPWR_QU

Kristalina Georgieva to head IMF for a second term on.ft.com/43Wo8cl

From the Amanpour Archive this week: 26 years since Northern Ireland bravely chose peace, a lookback at my interview with Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and Bertie Ahern as they reunited in Belfast last year.

What the Good Friday Agreement can teach the world about hope and peace.

Who else remembers when James Acaster made the greatest ever Brexit analogy?

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Exeter College, Oxford

This made me laugh.

Peter Ryan - love it. Pubonomics!

you’re not ready for the quality of memes AI is enabling

While I beat up on the World Bank a lot, IDA remains probably the best, “purest” form of foreign aid we have. I hope the U.S. and others step up this year.

The scars of the pandemic have left us with a global output loss since 2020 of about $3.3 trillion, with the costs disproportionately falling on the most vulnerable countries. More in Kristalina Georgieva's speech. imf.org/en/News/Articl…

Congratulations on a well-deserved renewal for a second term as Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva ! I look forward to working with you as we help our membership face global challenges.

What do you think?

Theo Maret Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 Uli Volz Duncan Green Amanda Glassman Hannah Ryder (芮 婉 洁)

Going into the IMF spring meetings next week, and the 80th Anniversary of Bretton Woods, a lot of ink is going to be spilt on the dollar world order.

Just read this fantastic piece by Mona Ali
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/regim…

2/Tough year for world bank, IMF reform. Solutions must be at scale of problems.
What’s on the docket? Issues of bigger bucks, representation, bigger bangs for bucks with reform of rules and risk taking appetite. Read david_mcnair
carnegieendowment.org/2024/04/04/tom…
twitter.com/TimH_B/status/…

OECD Development has published the 2023 data on Official Development Assistance (ODA) spending by each donor country. Click here to read Aid Watch's press release on the report: aidwatch.concordeurope.org/oda-missing-th… CONCORD #AidWatch

Solitude is for me a fount of healing..