Isabel Ortiz GSJ

@isabelortiz.bsky.social

Director Global Social Justice; former Director at the United Nations' ILO and UNICEF http://www.isabelortiz.info/

Govts bend laws to support the City. UK at/near the bottom of the G7/OECD league for investment for 30 yrs. Illicit financial flows, takeovers, asset-stripping rife. Financial engineering prized. 405,000+ professionally qualified accountants, highest per capita in the world, numerous scandals.

The finance curse is devouring the UK

Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Th...

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Ziad Abdel Samad of ANND: "Measures to reduce fiscal deficits—subsidy cuts or public sector downsizing—can disproportionately affect vulnerable populations, leading to social unrest. Such instability undermines the very macroeconomic stability the reforms seek to achieve." annd.org/en/publicati...

International Financial Institutions, Austerity, and Human Rights

The role of international financial institutions (IFIs), particularly the World Bank

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