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Apr 25, 2023 9 tweets 5 min read Read on X
I spent this morning with @Dochasnetwork to talk about Irish public support for #globaldev.

Their new representative study (2k sample) lays out the extraordinary levels of support for development.

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@trocaire @Concern @OxfamIreland #Worldview Image
ACTIVE 🏋️‍♀️🚴‍♂️🤸‍♂️

👉🏿31% of those surveyed actively engaged on global development in the last 12 months.

That’s huge.

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CONCERNED 🎗

👉🏿24% are ‘very concerned’ about ‘developing countries’
👉🏿49% are ‘fairly concerned’

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JUSTICE NOT CHARITY ⚖️

The main reasons given for supporting global development are

👉🏿Human rights
👉🏿Shared Humanity
👉🏿Empathy
👉🏿Solidarity
👉🏿Justice

Very few talk of charity

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MORE MONEY 📈

👉🏿32% support increasing the aid budget
👉🏿49% support maintaining it

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TRUST DEFICIT 📉

👉🏿 >60% have low trust in government
👉🏿 >70% have low trust in development orgs

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EMPATHY

👉🏿 1 million people (mostly female, 18-44, outside Dublin) are empathetic to the cause of global development and could be converted.

👉🏿 481k (mostly older males) are disengaged.

👉🏿 1.8m are already supportive.

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HEALTH

👉🏿 The 1m ‘empathisers’ who are convertible to the cause are mostly concerned about health, preventable disease and agriculture.

For more info check out @Dochasnetwork

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Apr 18
SHOCKING STAT

🔥Last year money flows to developing countries turned negative.🔥

💵$50bn dollars a year is now flowing 🔥OUT OF🔥 the poorest and most vulnerable countries.💵

What’s going on and how can @WorldBank and @IMFnews fix it?

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#SpringMeetings #WBGMeetings Image
Finance Ministers gather in Washington DC this week.

⛅️🌦️Cue weather analogies to lament the state of the global economy. 🌤️🌥️

🚨Here is the flashing red light on the dashboard that they should focus on. 🏮



#SpringMeetings #WBGMeetings
New analysis from @ONECampaign shows that for the first time since the financial crisis

Net finance flows turned negative

From a 2014 peak of US$225 billion

To US$51 billion in 2022

And will fall by another US$100 billion in 23/24



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Sep 1, 2023
Imagine finding out that you were paying 5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣% of what you could be paying for your mortgage?

This is what is happening to African Countries.

It’s fueling a hunger, debt, and cost of living crisis.

And it’s holding back solutions to #climatechange #ACS23

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Half of humanity live in countries that spend more on debt interest payments than on health or education.

But what’s really going on here?

At @onecampaign we crunched the numbers and found that the African debt crisis isn’t what it seems. Image
60% of African countries are in or a risk of debt distress.

The logical conclusion is that they took on too *much* debt.

Then you look at Debt to GDP Ratios.

Japan: 266%
US: 128%
France: 98%
UK: 80%

Africa (average): 64%

worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankin…
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Jul 23, 2023
This was not a good week for those facing hunger.

Most of the news is focusing on Russia.

But there’s more

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This weekend Russia has been bombing grain facilities in the Black Sea port of Odessa.

Earlier Russia pulled out of the Black Sea Grain Deal.

Why does this matter?

msn.com/en-us/news/wor…
Last year the war saw global grain prices shoot up.

Russia and Ukraine comprise a third of the world’s wheat exports most of which is exported through Black Sea Ports. 🌾 Image
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Jul 12, 2023
Next week @G20org Finance Ministers will discuss a new land-mark report.

If they act, it could transform the fortunes of millions of people.

It’s not public yet, but I’ve seen a leak and it’s very good.

Here are three reflections from having seen it.

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1⃣ A GROWING REALIZATION

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So called ‘Bidenomics’ brings back industrial strategy, this time with a shade of green.
The US Inflation Reduction Act will likely invest $100bn a year over the next seven years in green infrastructure in the US.

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Jun 22, 2023
This week Presidents and Prime Ministers met in #Paris and #London.

Motivated by international solidarity with #Ukraine and with the Global South

This is a tale of two Summits with similar narratives

And very different outcomes.

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#URC2023 #NewGlobalFinancingPact
The London Ukraine Recovery Conference was remarkably up beat. #URC2023

#Ukraine is the breadbasket of the world, a top exporter of iron and steel, a leader in energy, and a hub for tech startups​.

#NewGlobalFinancingPact
Economic opportunity remains intact, and the conflict has actually underscored Ukraine's potential​ and the resilience of its people.

#NewGlobalFinancingPact

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Apr 27, 2023
I just spoke (and listened) at #DevEngage2023 conference.

A gathering of bright, thoughtful people grappling with the big questions:

#justice

#fairness

And how to build bonds of #trust between the public in rich and poor countries..

Here are five things I learnt.

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1️⃣ THE RIGHT THING ✅

👉🏿Talking to the public about supporting aid and development only really works when they feed it’s the right thing to do.

👉🏿Making a foreign policy or a trade argument doesn’t.

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2️⃣ TRUST ⛓

👉🏿The public don’t often believe that institutions are going to be able to change things.

👉🏿A charity mindset of helping people isn’t empowering. Better to build bonds of solidarity and learning between people.

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