I’m on my way back to Nairobi. I spent the last 3 days in Rome at a UN expert group meeting on SDG2 (Ending Hunger) at the FAO, in preparation for the 2024 High-Level Political Forum that will be help in July 2024. It was a bit ironic that the FAO building where we held the meeting used to be the Italian Ministry of the Colonies under the Mussolini regime, and my main message to the FAO was about decolonizing the global economic architecture is a prerequisite for achieving the SDGs, including SDG2 to end hunger. It is 2024, and the global food system reflects the legacy of colonial and post-colonial hierarchies. This blog is a brief summary of my main message to the FAO.…
Very clear presentation of the conditions of colonization in neocolonialism and of the requirements for decolonization by an MMT economist, although MMT is not involved in the post specifically. Rather, it addresses structural problems facing the Global South.
SDGs = Sustainable Development Goals. There are 17.
The SDGs are not achievable—Unless we decolonize the global economic architecture
Fadhel Kaboub, Associate Professor of economics at Denison University (on leave) and President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. He currently serves as the Under-Secretary-General for Financing for Development at the Organisation of Educational Cooperation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.He also held a number of research affiliations with the Levy Economics Institute, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, the Economic Research Forum (Cairo), Power Shift Africa (Nairobi), and the Center for Strategic Studies on the Maghreb (Tunis). Fadhel is Tunisian-American MMT economist. Ph.D. in Economics & Social Science Consortium, 2006, University of Missouri - Kansas City. M.A. in Economics, May 2001, University of Missouri - Kansas City. B.S. in Economics, June 1999, with Distinction
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But MMT doesn't apply to small countries. Economists have said so.
So there's no alternative to borrowing in foreign currencies and doing what international agencies advise you to do. Stay tuned for the next episode of Father knows best.
/snark
Churchill believed in colonization. He felt that certain people, particularly in Africa, were unable to govern themselves.
Look what they are doing to Switzerland.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/03/25/the-eu-plot-to-ensnare-switzerland/
Will the people of Switzerland stand strong ?
Or have their TV's and radio's and newspapers over the last decade melted their will to resist ?
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