Looking forward to our panel on global inequalities Paris, France – 5 June 2026 – · 16h00-18h00 – · Room P005 Chaired by @gastonnievas https://www.gastonnievas.comhttps://x.com/gatonievas The panel addresses global and domestic economic inequalities and unequal exchange. My paper discusses TNCs and their global value chains: how they operate and how to tame them. See here.
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Beyond 2030
Various country groupings, parts of the UN, and academic institutions have begun generating ideas, for a post-2030 development agenda. Here a proposal to rethink direction AND process. See “Towards a truly transformative development agenda”
Towards a truly transformative development agenda
The 2030 Agenda – “transforming our world “- with its 17 SDGs is meant to be accomplished by 2030. Half of the SDGs’ targets are off track and several regressing. In terms of geopolitical constellations, a large number of UN member states have turned authoritarian and enamoured by austerity. In terms of ability to advocate…
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Eco-social contracts: Reflections on India and Nepal
The volume Eco-Social Contracts for Sustainable and Just Futures. Mobilising Collective Power to Deal with the 21st Century Polycrisis brings together the research and insights of activists, politicians, academics, artists from around the world. Our discussion on Contestation Movements and the Emergence of Eco-Social Contracts in India and Nepal demonstrates the immense challenges for progressive…
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Eco-Social Contracts for Sustainable and Just Futures. Mobilising Collective Power to Deal with the 21st Century Polycrisis. The multidisciplinary volume brings together the research of activists, politicians, academics, artists, from around the world. On the political trajectory of India and Nepal, see some conclusions by Alina Saba and myself, prepared with significant support and inputs…
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The Centre for International Health of Munich’s Ludwig Maximilian’s University is convening a Global Health Symposium: Building a resilient future: One Health in an era of financial and geopolitical shifts. Happy to give a keynote on “Geopolitical Shifts, Economic and Political Determinants of Health, and the Need for an Eco-Social Contract”. Do join! Please register…
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A solid and unconventional publication out 10 February in open access: Eco-Social Contracts for Sustainable and Just Futures (hardback available soon). It discusses economic and social justice within planetary boundaries. The editors @Patrick Huntjens, @Najma Mohamed, @Katja Hujo and @Manisha Desai pulled together 30 authors across many geographies, disciplines and practices, including activists, policy advocates, NGO leaders, former…
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Redressing hyper-globalisation and the inequities systemically generated in GVCs: Multilateral efforts at the UN
Hyperglobalisation – unfettered capitalism – causes multiple, interlinked economic, social, environmental, climate and gendered inequities, harming norms of social justice, at times outright ignoring human rights and agreed labour standards. Business activities can have harmful effects – the Rana Plaza factory collapse and Brumadinho dam breach are two well-known examples. TNCs argue that these were…
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