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"The world is facing a looming crisis of inequality that could see the first
trillionaires emerge while nearly half of humanity still languishes in poverty,
a group of 40 former presidents and prime ministers warns.
In a letter seen by the
Guardian, the group – which includes the ex-British
prime minister Gordon Brown – issues a joint appeal to current world leaders
for a “new economic coalition of the willing” to address the escalating threats
of inequality, poverty and environmental breakdown.
The former leaders also condemn “narrow unilateralism” and the “outdated” 1944
economic model while urging comprehensive debt relief, international tax
cooperation, and reform of institutions such as the International Monetary
Fund.
The letter was organised by Club de Madrid, the world’s biggest forum of
democratic former heads of state and government, with support from Oxfam and
the People’s Medicines Alliance.
Its signatories include Brown; Helen Clark of New Zealand; Jose Luis Rodríguez
Zapatero of Spain; Carlos Alvarado Quesada of Costa Rica; Aminata Touré of
Senegal; Sanna Marin of Finland; and Nobel peace prize winners José
Ramos-Horta, the current president of Timor-Leste, and Óscar Arias, former
president of Costa Rica.
Their rare intervention comes in a moment of profound global uncertainty with
democracies backsliding, the rules-based order in retreat and violence on the
rise. Policy analyst Fiona Hill has argued that a third world war is in effect
already under way."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
