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哈佛/斯坦福的系列海外赛正在进行，准备参赛的小伙伴们都在摩拳擦掌，积极备赛。我们给大家准备了一些关于如何备赛、如何准备这个辩题的内容，这也是我们的部分教练将要给备赛的学生们讲解的框架，希望能帮助参赛的辩手们快速把握辩题。 Resolved: In the United States, right-to-work laws do more harm than good. 2023辩论课程｜哈佛、斯坦福邀请赛备赛课程 哈佛/斯坦福年度重磅赛...
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哈佛/斯坦福的系列海外赛正在进行，准备参赛的小伙伴们都在摩拳擦掌，积极备赛。我们给大家准备了一些关于如何备赛、如何准备这个辩题的内容，这也是我们的部分教练将要给备赛的学生们讲解的框架，希望能帮助参赛的辩手们快速把握辩题。 Resolved: In the United States, right-to-work laws do more harm than good. 一、关于Economic Growth & Promoting Freedom ...
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哈佛/斯坦福的系列海外赛正在进行，准备参赛的小伙伴们都在摩拳擦掌，积极备赛。我们给大家准备了一些关于如何备赛、如何准备这个辩题的内容，这也是我们的部分教练将要给备赛的学生们讲解的框架，希望能帮助参赛的辩手们快速把握辩题。 Resolved: In the United States, right-to-work laws do more harm than good. 一、关于Wagner Act & Collective Bargaining &nb...
Nations Must Promote ‘Green Recovery’ From Virus, IMF Chief Says
With the world economy reeling from the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic, nations must do all they can to promote a recovery that also fights against the climate-change crisis, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said.
How IMF programmes can increase corruption
Corruption is one of the greatest obstacles to economic development. It deprives nations of income to invest into public services, with adverse implications for education, health, well-being, and prosperity. The Global Economic Forum estimates that corruption costs the public coffers US$2.6 trillion a year. Why is corruption so difficult to control? Scholars have long blamed...
How years of IMF prescriptions have hurt West African health systems
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) provides financial assistance to countries in economic trouble. But its policy proposals don’t always yield positive results for the countries it purports to help. For instance, critics have argued that the IMF inhibits government spending on public health and diverts resources from the health sector to repay external debt. We set out to...
The IMF is showing some hypocrisy on inequality
“I hope people will listen now” said Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month. Lagarde was alluding to the wave of reactionary populism that’s currently sweeping the developed economies, and was harking back to her speech at Davos in 2013 when she warned that economic “inequality is cor...
Why South Africa shouldn’t turn to the IMF for help
Two men sit at the roadside in the hope of being offered work. South Africa’s unemployment is moving towards 30%. The view that South Africa should look towards the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to be rescued from the unfolding economic meltdown seems to be growing by the day. It has been touted in the most unlikeliest of places. Even the new Finance Minister Mal...
Haiti’s deadly riots fueled by anger over decades of austerity and foreign interference
At least seven people are dead and Haitian Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant has resigned after weeks of violent protests in Haiti that were sparked by a sudden increase of fuel prices. Demonstrations began on July 6, when the Haitian government said that gas prices would go up 38 percent to US$4.60 per gallon because the International Monetary Fund, a major Haitian creditor...
COVID-19 further exposes inequalities in the global financial system
To stem the economic fallout from COVID-19, developed countries have injected an unprecedented US$9 trillion into their economies. The International Monetary Fund has recommended sustained fiscal support, emphasizing greater spending on health care and environmental protection projects. Meanwhile, countries in the “global south” – broadly, low- and middle-income countries in...
IMF says it cares about inequality. But will it change its ways?
The IMF headquarters in Washington DC. Shutterstock The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has become increasingly infatuated by the negative consequences of excessive inequality. This new-found mission is laudable, but neglects the manifold ways its own policy advice contributed to growing income inequality. As lender of last resort, the IMF provides countries in economic t...
Oxfam Says IMF Loans Force Spending Cuts That Exacerbate Poverty
The vast majority of International Monetary Fund loans extended during the Covid-19 pandemic have suggested or demanded spending cuts that would worsen poverty and inequality, charity group Oxfam says. Seventy-six of the fund’s 91 loans since March have sought belt tightening, according to Oxfam. The result could be deep cuts to public healthcare and pensions; wage freezes a...
The IMF is hurting countries it claims to help
Mark Weisbrot The fund’s loan agreement with Ecuador will worsen unemployment and poverty Ecuadorian police arrest a protestor during a demonstration against president Lenin Moreno’s austerity measures. When people think of the damage that wealthy countries – typically led by the US and its allies – cause to people in the rest of the world, they probably think of warfare. H...
Developing countries are sinking in a world awash in cash. Here’s what the US can do.
US President Joe Biden looks toward Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in Washington, U.S., February 5, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque The Biden administration has inherited a crisis in poor and middle-income countries, where the economic fallout from COVID-19 has pushed hundreds of millions of people into extreme poverty. It’s a crisis that cries out for global leadership, a...
Turning back the Poverty Clock: How will COVID-19 impact the world’s poorest people?
Homi Kharas and Kristofer Hamel Wednesday, May 6, 2020 Chief Operating Officer – World Data Lab Using the methods described in the World Poverty Clock, we ask what will happen to the number of poor people in the world—those living in households with less than $1.90 per person per day in actual or imputed spending—given this new economic forecast. We take the dif...
IMF encourages countries affected by COVID to keep spending on safety net
The International Monetary Fund issued a report Tuesday on the current global economic outlook. The IMF is projecting global growth will contract by more than 4% this year. That’s slightly better than its June forecast, but still pretty grim. For now, the IMF said all countries, not just the U.S., should stop worrying about their debt and spend what is needed to keep their c...
Helping poorest tackle climate crisis will boost global growth, says IMF head
Kristalina Georgieva says investing to create resilient economies is a ‘win-win-win-win’ scenario Kristalina Georgieva says there is a fourfold benefit from policies aiming to reverse global heating. Helping the most vulnerable people to cope with the climate crisis can boost the global economy during the Covid crisis and governments should make this a priority, the head o...
In developing countries, government energy subsidies are more beneficial than harmful (NSDA China)
General Energy Subsidy Reform Facility: Generates Knowledge to Support Governments to Design and Implement Sustainable Energy Subsidy Reforms while Safeguarding the Welfare of the Poor (2020). This article provides a general overview of energy subsidies. It doesn’t really have any evidence. Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Better Funding for Renewable (2021). This article argue...