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#DevelopingWorld

In The Quarterly Journal of #Economics, ‘The #DevelopingWorld is
Poorer than We Thought, But No Less Successful in the Fight Against
#Poverty’ (2010) Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion revealed that 98% of the reduction of poverty in the world from 1981-2005 was in #China .

Debt is crushing the developing world

A reminder and something that has been ignore by many in the West, most governments willing to turn a blind eye to the plundering of already poor countries by the companies that they regulate.

http://archive.today/2025.06.02-041422/https://www.ft.com/content/29a0f7fa-1871-4012-a730-48717fc61ecb (archive)

#Debt #DevelopingWorld #Theft #Profiteering #Misery #Stiglitz #FT

Start of linked article - title reads
Debt is crushing the developing world
There is an urgent need to rethink financial structures that are
failing billions of people

Below a drawing of a small bowed tree chained to a very very large ball is shown.

Screenshot of the conclusion to the article, reads
‘There is growing consensus among experts: current debt policies in many developing countries are serving financial markets, not the people. This threatens to condemn entire nations to a lost decade - or worse. A lost decade or more for some of the poorest and most vulnerable is something the world can ill-afford.
The debate must move beyond narrow narratives of success based simply on avoiding financial defaults. It must reflect the lived realities of billions whose futures are being mortgaged to serve old debts under unsustainable terms.
And it must begin to address the fundamental flaws in the global architecture that have led to recurrent debt and development crises. Now is the time for responsible action.’

CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security: Unequal internet: Study highlights differences between websites from developing and developed countries. “CISPA researcher Masudul Bhuiyan from CISPA Faculty Dr. Cristian-Alexander Staicu’s team explored whether security and data privacy differences can be found on websites as well. His study of 200,000 websites from 20 developing and developed […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/01/unequal-internet-study-highlights-differences-between-websites-from-developing-and-developed-countries-cispa-helmholtz-center-for-information-security/

International Fund for Agricultural Development: IFAD launches RemitSCOPE: a free global data platform to capture and facilitate remittances for rural development . “As migration continues to increase worldwide due to the record number of active conflicts, economic instability, and climate change, RemitSCOPE.org seeks to improve access to digital remittances, reduce transfer costs and […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2024/12/23/ifad-launches-remitscope-a-free-global-data-platform-to-capture-and-facilitate-remittances-for-rural-development-international-fund-for-agricultural-development/

#Azerbaijan has announced a $1bn fund to invest in #ClimateAction projects in the #DevelopingWorld, to help #VulnerableNations build resilience to #ClimateChange risks, including #floods and #droughts.

This was announced as a prelude to the UN Climate Change Conference #COP29 – being held in November this year – by COP29 President-Designate Mukhtar Babayev at a news conference on Friday.

The #Climate #Finance #ActionFund #CFAF will be capitalised with contributions from #FossilFuel producing countries and companies across #oil, #gas and #coal, and Azerbaijan will be a founding contributor, he said.

https://www.dawn.com/news/amp/1846748

#Geopolitics #Environmental #EcoJustice #EcoFinance #ClimateFunding #ClimateCrisis #GlobalSouth #EnvironmentalAction

Microplastic Human Dietary Uptake from 1990 to 2018 Grew across 109 Major Developing and Industrialized Countries but Can Be Halved by Plastic Debris Removal
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https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c00010 <-- shared paper #1
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s12403-022-00470-8 <-- shared paper #2
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[By some estimates, we ingest about a credit card's worth of plastic every single week (link #2), but this very much varies by location (link #1)]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #global #publichealth #microplastics #MP #water #hydrology #freshwater #marine #watersecurity #waterresources #humanimpacts #plastic #industrialdevelopment #diet #ingestion #humanuptake #healthimpacts #developingworld #coast #coastline #plasticpollution #pollution #foodchain #ecosystems #foodweb #habitat #model #modeling #SDGs #SustainableDevelopmentGoals #cleanwater #sanitation #debris #healthrisk #risk #hazard #saltwater #watertreatment #solidwaste #wastemanagement #mitigation #physiochemical #pathological #biochemical

schematic - Dietary and airborne MP uptake pathway overview and uptake reduction by water quality control aided by aquatic plastic debris removal in 109 major developing and industrialized countries.

maps - Reduction of the per capita MP in vivo residence rate across 109 developed and developing countries by aquatic plastic debris removal eliminating global aquatic plastic debris at (a) 50%, (b) 75%, (c) 90%, and (d) 99%

photo - microplastics and plastic pollution on a beach

maps and flow chart - Per capita daily MP dietary and inhalation uptake rates at the country level in 109 industrialized and developing countries within Asia, Europe, Africa, and North and South America, focusing on the world’s major coastlines that are affected by plastic pollution

#MichaelAndTeene-116:
"The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it." - #Aristotle
While the world assumed #IMF/#WB programs only control the #DevelopingWorld, said programs actually enslaved the #DevelopedWorld, e.g. the #US?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/un-represents-governments-world-may-bell-atri-represent-teene-zahid-tkgpf/

#MichaelAndTeene-105:
Assuming the #US #stockmarket crash is (partly) the result of a depletion of #WallStreet credibility before the world, may #IMF & #WorldBank policies in the #DevelopingWorld be a contributing factor, as their HQs are in #washingtondc?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/un-represents-governments-world-may-bell-atri-represent-teene-zahid-k6kif/

Part 71:
2 men fight in front of a gun shop; one leaves; the other buys a gun from the gun shop owner (a witness) & shoots his opponent; the gun shop owner is guilty of complicity.
Costly fuel leads to death/damage in the #DevelopingWorld; are @OPECSecretariat, @GECF_News liable?

"Here is a simple moral proposition. No one in #America, or anywhere in the world, should die or suffer unnecessarily because they cannot afford a #PrescriptionDrug which, in many cases, costs a few cents or a few dollars to manufacture." - Senator Bernie Sanders

Poor people in the #DevelopingWorld have a right to #medicine | Bernie Sanders | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/20/poor-people-in-the-developing-world-have-a-right-to-medicine?utm_source=press.coop

The significance of #DevelopedWorld T-bonds, e.g. #Japan, was reliability, as opposed to the volatility of #DevelopingWorld T-bonds.
If that is no longer the case, how about bonds with double-digit returns:
#Egypt 6mnths=19.4%
#Argentina 1yr=26.2%
#Ukraine 1yr=18.1%
#CoolICanWait

#GreatDepression2024-27:
Top clothing brands share drop (5 years):
@hm=-9.79%
@marksandspencer=-13.22%
@LeviStraussCo=40.14%
@PVHCorp=-43.44%
@GapInc=-61.65%
Is the @IMFNews ignoring falling #DevelopedWorld purchasing power, & the 85.54% of mankind living in the #DevelopingWorld?

#GreatDepression2024-24:
Seemingly as part of its "new vision & mission", the @WorldBank recommends #Islamabad create a "Council Of Ministers" as a panacea to #Pakistani (& #DevelopingWorld) issues. How may said Council impact #Islamabad's Special Investment Facilitation Council?

#GreatDepression2024-14:
Given, #European governments have begun floating retail bonds via #European banks, e.g. @BNPParibas, @SocieteGenerale, @bancosantander, @deutschebank, @Hsbc, etc:-
Why may the #DevelopingWorld need the @IMFNews if the citizens can be trusted moneylenders?

#2024HoldingCompanyRisk issue (Part 1):
#DevelopingWorld nations reportedly float bonds through:-
@JPMorgan
@Citibank
@StanChart
@creditsuisse
@ubs
May @IMFNews "crackdowns" in the #Pakistani power/gas sector negate @federalreserve/@ecb plans to protect related holding companies?