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A more inclusive global order is possible

As the world transitions to recovery from the pandemic, the inequities are only widening, both between and within countries.

Darren Walker
Published Tue, Sep 20, 2022 · 07:29 PM

OUR international rules-based order through which the world’s nations pursue global peace and development is crashing into the limits of its founding vision. What our predecessors built some eight decades ago, after the Second World War — from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to the United Nations — is in desperate need of repair. But it remains essential, and salvageable.

For billions of people, the stakes could not be higher. This is painfully true for the people of Ukraine, where Vladimir Putin continues his malevolent invasion of a sovereign nation and subversion of international law. It’s also true across the Global South, where I believe our global development finance system has proved outdated, outmoded and outmatched.

We must reform the architecture of our global order — the blueprint for our system of international relations and development finance.

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