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The topic on the table was debt , specifically the hundreds of billions in debt currently owed by Africa. Sixty percent of that debt is just interest, says Hannah Ryder from consultancy Development Reimagined.

Bergstrom (2022) finds that economic growth, as measured by the increase in national gross domestic product (GDP) per person, explains 90 per cent of the historical variation in poverty.

In 1980, the richest one-hundredth of 1 percent of Americans provided 10 percent of all donations to federal elections. By 2012, they provided 40 percent.

One of the central findings from the Lobbying and Policy Change project was that the s tatus quo dominated – it was much harder for advocates inside and outside of government to successfully create a policy change than it was to pr event such change . The hurdle of the status quo is especially high in the United States because of the many vet o poi... See more