ActionAid's latest report, 'Fifty Years of Failure: the IMF, Debt, and Austerity in Africa,' sheds light on the ongoing challenges African countries face due to the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) austerity policies, writes Winston Mwale.
The time has come for a grand progressive coalition that will press the Democratic Party to redeem FDR’s 1944 call for a second Bill of Rights - guaranteeing economic security for all, write Harvey J. Kaye and Alan Minsky for Common Dreams.
When the UN’s 193 member states reviewed the current status of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger by 2030, the verdict was mostly failures—and with little or no successes.
Two billion face severe financial hardships when paying out-of-pocket for necessary medical treatment, according to a joint World Health Organization-World Bank report.