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How can 🇲🇽Mexico design an US-Mexico-Canada Agreement where development matters? Tim Hirschel-Burns + Rachel Thrasher discuss in a new blogpost, highlighting 3️⃣ 🔑 areas. Read more: gdpcenter.org/45ExdJI

🚨Heads up: IMF board paper for #FfD4 is out. The headline: While prospects for development are crumbling, all is well with us, nothing to see here, please stop staring and whatever you do, don't intervene! *and no mention of quota reform #FfD4People imf.org/en/Publication…

The big beautiful bill puts a 3.5% tax on remittances. Helen Dempster Sam Huckstep and Charlie Ward estimate this could reduce remittances to El Salvador by over 1 percentage point of GNI. That's a massive economic hit for a poor country.

Note that these clashes occurred after ICE explicitly began carrying out worksite raids and arresting people at court hearing and check-ins; explicitly people who are not criminals. In fact, this happened because Stephen Miller screamed at ICE to STOP going after criminals.

And of course there is the unstated list of what national heritages are compatible with American identity. Waving an Irish flag on St. Patrick’s Day? Totally American. Italian flags? Proud of your heritage. Mexican or Salvadoran flag? Un-American

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. 🧵A thread on a NEW STUDY written with Gastón Nievas Offidani [1/9] 🔗 wid.world/news-article/u…

So much of all we’re experiencing is about our relationship with the Global South. But while the suppression of the Global South is central to their pitch, the Dems just ignore the Global South. We desperately need an affirmative vision of how we can all thrive together

Want to come here? We’re freezing immigration. Want to send money back to your family? Remittance tax. Want to build your economy? We’re tariffing you. What do you mean your country doesn’t have money? We’re slashing aid. MAGA’s message to the Global South: go home and suffer

Stunning rise of China

Seeing the phenomenon play out (which seems to be especially strong with academics) where people’s reaction to a major public figure coming out in support of their view is “oh you’re only realizing this now?!” This is a losing mentality. Take the win people!