The #CatholicChurch & 30 economists, including IDEAs ED Charles Abugre, Jayati Ghosh, Joseph E. Stiglitz & Martín Guzmán, offer a bold & actionable roadmap for reforming our global financial system in the #JubileeReport, launching today! Read: bit.ly/4kNj3e8

2/2 "Ethiopia was punished by Credit Rating Agencies when they applied for the #G20CommonFramework. This has also led to countries like Kenya avoiding structured debt restructuring while penalising their populations harshly."

🗣️🔊National sovereignty is undermined when economic policy design centers creditor interests rather than citizens. Beyond the damage to long term development, runaway public debt catalyzes irreversible social discord, undermining societal cohesion ⤵️ theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/opinion/co…

“The times demand a new play book for thinking & action-to institute the urgent & overdue overhaul of a failed, inadequate international system of finance. Business-as-usual processes & platforms as just concluded in Sevilla are clearly not that playbook” theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/opinion/co…

🔊🗣️“reaching the SDGs requires a higher ambition PLUS a new approach to finance & economics. Meaning, taking deliberate actions to ‘shape’ the economies and markets to deliver inclusive & sustainable economic growth based on common good principles.” ⤵️ theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/opinion/co…

📢Call for participants! Join the Young Scholar Workshop on "Africa’s Debt Crisis: A Reparation & Reparative Justice Framework Analysis" on 24-26 Aug in Accra, Ghana. Travel costs covered! Apply by 28 July 11:59am (EAT). Read: tinyurl.com/yjahbux4 AFRODAD University of Ghana

**Join via Zoom** 🖥️Webinar: Advancing Transformative Social Policy in Africa--Towards an Agenda for #SocialSummit2025 📅Date: 22 July, 2pm GMT 💬Speakers: Katja Hujo, @jotAdesina & Nana Akua Anyidoho 🖊️Register: tinyurl.com/yc7vmu8x GETSPA @UnivOfGh @opensociety

🗣️🇸🇳 shows the power of combining protest & voting action. It stalled Wade’s unconstitutional ‘third term’ quest in 2012 & Sall’s election postponement crisis that was torpedoed by the Constitutional Council’s affirmation of the public outcry against it⤵️ theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/opinion/co…

📢REMINDER: Only 6 days left! Submit your applications for the young scholar workshop on "Africa’s Debt Crisis: A Reparation & Reparative Justice Framework Analysis" on 24-26 Aug in Accra, Ghana. Apply by 28 July 11:59am (EAT). Travel costs covered. Read: tinyurl.com/yjahbux4

🔊🗣️There are clear inter linkages between present underdevelopment on the African continent and the historical injustices (of the transatlantic slave trade, apartheid, colonialism and neo-colonialism) - whose legacies endure to-date⤵️ theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/opinion/co…

🗣️🔊The aspiration for sovereign, domestically financed health systems is imperative given the decline & near collapse of external financing for health in Africa. Plus, changing disease burdens & new health risks are stretching health systems- compelling alternate innovations.

🗣️from the colonial to post-colonial periods, the extraction of resources in Africa has benefitted external interests more, reinforcing dependency & entrenching an exploitative, damaging legacy of environmental degradation, limited diversification, underdevelopment & inequities.

“selective, collective amnesia has become a pathological coping mechanism. It’s the problematic & casual way in which the nation’s hi(story) gets distorted & rewritten repeatedly in a vicious cycle of eerie de ja vu. Football, the latest theatre for this disturbing national trait

🗣️constitution making & implementation experience in 🇰🇪confirms that you cannot legislate constitutionalism. Norms, values are nurtured (or NOT) in the social realm. We are seeing the consequences of narrowing down social re-engineering & societal transformation to legalese ⤵️

🗣️“the less prominent story in the immigration hype is the actual cost of the brain drain from source countries exporting their most skilled-after training them at great odds–foregoing their direly needed services, loosing out to destinations perceived to offer better prospects”

🗣️ “China is a study in an alternate outcome in the face of trade policy uncertainty. A diverse exports market gives Chinese exporters a kind of wired in resilience as seen in the context of the decline in exports to the 🇺🇸 in the current trade war”⤵️ theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/opinion/co…

🗣️Is this the moment to front and implement alternate conceptions/models of governance -tailored to context, avoiding a ‘one-size-fits all template. A post- liberal democratic era perhaps?

🗣️“Open and equitable international tax cooperation is one mechanism to boost domestic resource mobilization for developing countries. Which makes the proposed UN framework convention on international tax cooperation an important process to address tax avoidance and evasion.”

📢Join IDEAS - Africa Network (IDAN)’s webinar via Zoom on “Political Economy of the War in Sudan” Sched: 13 Oct, 6pm (East Africa time) Register: bit.ly/48nj7On Read more: bit.ly/46H3bV