Sustainable Development Goals

On Isla Grande, Afro-Colombian residents discuss the urgent need for a sustainable electricity plant. Their efforts echo President Petro’s push for solar energy, with the aim of addressing broader regional goals of sustainable development. Yet,…

In December 2023, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development released a report showing that, since 2018, literacy in reading and mathematics had declined amongst the world’s students. Importantly, they noted that the decline could…

Despite having ‘everything necessary to become a powerful, modern, industrialised continent’, in the words of former Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah, the African continent has been plagued by Western intervention in the form of coups, structural…

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) were launched in 2015, aiming to be realised by 2030. However, halfway to this deadline, the UN assessed that they are all ‘seriously off track’. Why? An austere…

In contrast to global trends, the Chinese government announced in 2021 that extreme poverty in the country had been eradicated. It will be difficult for the Chinese path to socialist modernisation to be seen as…

This dossier analyses the growing fragility of the US-led ‘rules-based international order’ and examines the possibilities of regionalism to advance the construction of a new global system.

On 25 May 2022, 8,000 people marched to the Warangal Municipal Corporation and handed in 10,000 applications for housing. Working alongside members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Jakkaloddi Struggle Committee has built…