May I interrupt your Omicron doom scrolling with this shot of our one-year-old enjoying the magic of winter.

Kraut 🇩🇪🇪🇺🇬🇧 3,5% 🕷🕊🩸#FBPE🚩 Am following this advice ! 😄

'Economic growth accompanied by worsening social outcomes is not success. It is failure.' - Jacinda Ardern

I’m thrilled to be included on Apolitical’s 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy 2021! It’s an honour to be a part of the #GenderEquality100 #GenerationEquality apolitical.co/list/en/gender…

En su nuevo artículo 'La privatización de las pensiones en América Latina', Carmelo Mesa-Lago contrasta las promesas de las reformas con estadísticas y los principios de la seguridad social de International Labour Organization 1/8
ILOSocialProtection Valérie Schmitt shahra razavi Fabio Duran-Valverde

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See this fantastic Development Pathways blog on the new universal child benefit in the USA, its likely impacts and its implications for the rest of the world: bit.ly/2OJnmgo shahra razavi Ugo Gentilini David Stewart Natalia Winder Rossi UNICEF Social Policy Stephen Barrett Scott Santens

It's here!

The world is not poor. On the contrary, we presently use *more than double* the resources and energy that are required to ensure flourishing lives for all. The problem is that it's all organized around elite accumulation, rather than around actual human needs.

Evaluación de cuatro décadas de privatización de pensiones en América Latina: promesas y realidades. Por
Carmelo Mesa-Lago

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One way to think of the Doughnut - its boundaries provide the pre-conditions for human flourishing.

I will never accept a system that enables billionaires to add $1,100,000,000,000 to their wealth during a pandemic but doesn’t raise the $7.25 minimum wage for over a decade.

Tax the rich. Raise the wage. Now.

So much for 'family values'...

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Looking forward to this more than anything currently.

Double issue of Feminist Economics on Feminist Economics perspectives on the Pandemic, edited by Naila Kabeer shahra razavi and Yana van der Meulen Rodgers.

We don’t need to treat essential workers like heroes. We need to treat them like human beings with dignity. Raise their wages. Give them hazard pay. Guarantee health care and paid sick leave.

This will be terrific!

Great move by WHO!

The myth of the 'efficient' private sector has been busted by Covid | Coronavirus | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Strengthening social protection - Sustainable Goals sustainablegoals.org.uk/strengthening-…

The 'economy' is ultimately our material relationship with each other and with the rest of the living world. Do we want that relationship to be based on extraction and exploitation? Or do we want it to be based on reciprocity and care?

Mohammad Reza Shajarian: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert youtu.be/GnI4R9Bdl3g via YouTube

We lost an icon and a voice that was timeless, a true maestro of Persian classical music. May he rest in peace.