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offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

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offsite link UN Agency Staff Told ?Don?t Say Englishman? in Language Crackdown Sun Sep 08, 2024 19:00 | Richard Eldred
A UN agency has riled critics by banning terms like "Englishman" and "forefathers" for being too gendered, sparking accusations of Orwellian overreach in its quest for inclusive language.
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offsite link The Curious Case of Mark Zuckerberg Sun Sep 08, 2024 17:08 | Andrew Lowenthal
Zuckerberg's confession of censorship under government pressure skips the part where Facebook planned to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story two months before the New York Post broke it, says Andrew Lowenthal.
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offsite link Ed Miliband Considers Scrapping Planned Nuclear Plant Sun Sep 08, 2024 15:00 | Richard Eldred
The UK's nuclear future hangs in the balance as Energy Secretary Ed Miliband mulls scrapping plans for a massive plant in Wales.
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offsite link BBC ?Breached Guidelines 1,500 Times? Over Israel-Hamas War Sun Sep 08, 2024 13:00 | Richard Eldred
A damning new report reveals that the BBC, during the Israel-Hamas conflict, breached its own guidelines over 1,500 times and showed a "deeply worrying pattern of bias" against Israel.
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offsite link Government Faces High Court Showdown With its Free Speech Tsar Sun Sep 08, 2024 11:00 | Toby Young
The Free Speech Union has formally begun its judicial review of the Government's decision to 'pause' the Freedom of Speech Act, naming Prof Arif Ahmed, the Govt's 'free speech tsar' as an interested party.
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Global Growth Remains Low Amidst Debt Concerns, War and Inflation, Says IMF

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Global Growth Remains Low Amidst Debt Concerns, War and Inflation, Says IMF

The challenges to the global economy and slow economic growth will continue this year, said IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva. Delivering her traditional “curtain raiser” speech before the opening of the IMF and World Bank Spring meetings, she anticipated a 3% growth this year, below 3.4% last year.

“The IMF is reporting bad news for wealthy and poor countries,” said Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of the religious development group Jubilee USA Network. LeCompte monitored IMF policies for more than a decade. “The vulnerable are struggling with the pandemic, inflation and rising food prices.”

For the poorest countries, the IMF chief sees higher debt payments and lower demand for what they export. This could fuel further hunger and poverty increases.

Sixty percent of low-income countries and a quarter of emerging economies are at or near debt crises. Since February the IMF initiated, alongside the Indian Presidency of the G20 and the World Bank, a Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable to resolve disagreements that stall debt relief processes.

“While more countries face debt crises, we still don't have a fully functioning debt relief process,” noted LeCompte. "Developing countries need debt relief and access to more resources."

Georgieva called for donor countries to address funding shortfalls so the IMF maintains capacity to provide interest-free loans to the poorest members.

Watch the curtain-raiser speech here:
https://www.imf.org/en/live?_slide=CR-SM23

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