Ben Phillips Conrad Quilty-Harper Fabulous clip! Thanks for sharing. I love Hancock's work and his comments here remind me of Michael Caine's mantra - 'use the difficulty'

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Happy Birthday to the great Herbie Hancock. Here’s Herbie sharing how he learnt from Miles Davis that when you, or your band, make a mistake, whether it turns out that it really was a mistake depends on what note you play next. A lesson beyond music.

As World Bank President calls for historic #IDA21 replenishment, focus on size obscures need for urgent policy reform to support ecologically sustainable and just socio-economic #transformation

Rad María José Romero analysis in our #ObserverSpring24

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The speech that I could not deliver because German police burst into our Berlin venue to disband our Palestine Congress (1930s style). Judge for yourselves the kind of society Germany is becoming when its police bans the following words:

Friends,

Congratulations, and heartfelt…

How 2 unlock 100s of Billions 4 smallholder farmers fighting hunger & climate change? BIG opportunity 4 #WorldBank meetings! Am honoured 2 write this piece w the great Wanjira Mathai
Let’s go! HungryforAction One Acre Fund Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli Axel van Trotsenburg Jay Heimbach Andrew Steer

“People are suffering from climate shocks. Governments are still not taking seriously enough their responsibilities.”

Speaking to The Associated Press at Skoll Foundation World Forum, Mary Robinson praised ECHR ruling that states' climate inaction breaches human rights:

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The SDGs aren’t just another “nice to have”. We need to bring them to the heart of our industrial and financial strategies. Read my paper for UN DESA on the role of mission-oriented public development banks in mobilising action around the SDGs ⬇️

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I just returned from #Gaza for Medical Aid for Palestinians.
The scale of the suffering and humanitarian catastrophe inflicted by Israel is vast and horrific.
What is being done to the Palestinians of Gaza is a disaster for humanity.
History will judge all who are complicit.
#CeasefireNow

Watch this video about Our Common Air... #AirPollution #ClimateAction #health youtu.be/BHWzsyZeDLY?si…

In a way the whole world has been colonised by the super-rich- ordinary people everywhere, north and south, and even the planet itself are colonial subjects to be extracted from.

NEW: Why are our politicians so obsessed with economic growth? And what are the alternatives?

Kate Raworth and Michael Jacobs were on the latest episode of the New Economics Podcast to discuss💸
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'Algorithms have become market gatekeepers and value allocators, and are now becoming producers and arbiters of knowledge.' In our article Tim O'Reilly Ilan Strauss Rufus and I argue for a closer look at the economic power of AI in The Conversation ⬇️ theconversation.com/to-understand-…

It's important that the US government supports #G20 discussions on how to tax the super-rich. 'You can play a big role in this' Jayati Ghosh told the Patriotic Millionaires today. #TaxTheRich

New in #ObserverSpring24 👀As the Spring Meetings are expected to focus on World Bank’s Roadmap and IDA - World Bank 21 replenishment, civil society remains concerned about the lack of evidence base to support Bank policies.

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France just cut international development aid, after trailblazing on global financial reform and spearheading important replenishments. Why? Especially if Macron could easily strengthen the Financial Transaction Tax and use the proceeds for development and climate…

In Peru (2021), 94% of households have zero income from capital, 2% have negligible positive amounts, and the entire capital income is concentrated among the top 4%.
LIS

“Victory requires openly admitting that a totalitarian regime that commits genocide, fuels conflict, and threatens war will never be a reliable partner…”

To be clear this line was about China not the US.

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This.....truth-telling ain't hard. Wish more journalists/commentators would do it.

Now my favourite ever news story:

I’m worried about Global Financial Architecture Reform

I’ve been working on it for years.

Now that it’s time has come.

We might just waste it.

A 🧵. #SkollWF