<div dir="ltr">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">David Legge</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:D.Legge@latrobe.edu.au">D.Legge@latrobe.edu.au</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><div link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" lang="EN-GB"><div class="m_-737184152727176746WordSection1">
<p class="m_-737184152727176746MsoPlainText">People's everyday practices, not the elites of Davos, hold the human economy answer to inequality <<a href="https://www.pambazuka.org/advocacy-campaigns/people%E2%80%99s-everyday-practices-not-elites-davos-hold-human-economy-answer-inequality" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://www.pambazuka.org/<wbr>advocacy-campaigns/people%E2%<wbr>80%99s-everyday-practices-not-<wbr>elites-davos-hold-human-<wbr>economy-answer-inequality</span></a>>
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<p class="m_-737184152727176746MsoPlainText">Marc C. A. Wegerif <<a href="https://www.pambazuka.org/author/marc-c-wegerif" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://www.pambazuka.org/<wbr>author/marc-c-wegerif</span></a>><u></u><u></u></p>

<p class="m_-737184152727176746MsoPlainText">Oxfam has been successful in highlighting the gross and rapidly growing inequalities in the world in international fora, but their approach of asking the rich elites and their allies in governments to do the right thing is not bringing
 change and worse it is perpetuating the myth that we have no alternative other than to depend on large corporations. It is in people's everyday practices, not from the elites that we are far more likely to find meaningful solutions to inequality and the seeds
 of a more human economy</p><p class="m_-737184152727176746MsoPlainText"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="m_-737184152727176746MsoPlainText">New evidence of Africa's systematic looting, provided by an increasingly schizophrenic World Bank <<a href="https://www.pambazuka.org/economics/new-evidence-africa%E2%80%99s-systematic-looting-provided-increasingly-schizophrenic-world-bank" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://www.pambazuka.org/<wbr>economics/new-evidence-africa%<wbr>E2%80%99s-systematic-looting-<wbr>provided-increasingly-<wbr>schizophrenic-world-bank</span></a>><wbr>Patrick<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_-737184152727176746MsoPlainText">Bond <<a href="https://www.pambazuka.org/taxonomy/term/3429" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://www.pambazuka.org/<wbr>taxonomy/term/3429</span></a>><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_-737184152727176746MsoPlainText"> A recent World Bank report
</p><p class="m_-737184152727176746MsoPlainText"><<a href="https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/29001/9781464810466.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://openknowledge.<wbr>worldbank.org/bitstream/<wbr>handle/10986/29001/<wbr>9781464810466.pdf?sequence=2&<wbr>isAllowed=y</span></a>><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_-737184152727176746MsoPlainText">, *The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018*, offers evidence of how much poorer Africa is becoming thanks to rampant minerals, oil and gas extraction. Yet World Bank policies and practices remain oriented to enforcing foreign loan repayments
 and transnational corporate profit repatriation, thus maintaining the looting.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="m_-737184152727176746MsoPlainText">Struggle for democracy: Problems with plunderocracy and imperialist intervention <<a href="https://www.pambazuka.org/democracy-governance/struggle-democracy-problems-plunderocracy-and-imperialist-intervention" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://www.pambazuka.org/<wbr>democracy-governance/struggle-<wbr>democracy-problems-<wbr>plunderocracy-and-imperialist-<wbr>intervention</span></a>>Farooque<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_-737184152727176746MsoPlainText">Chowdhury <<a href="https://www.pambazuka.org/taxonomy/term/7808" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://www.pambazuka.org/<wbr>taxonomy/term/7808</span></a>><u></u><u></u></p>

<p class="m_-737184152727176746MsoPlainText">Challenges in the struggle for democracy assume definite shape and character: no scope for ignoring imperialism and plunder, and lending space to imperialists and its proxies while organising the struggle for democracy. So, the stand
 is: oppose imperialism and plunder, and don’t deactivate the march to democracy.<u></u><u></u></p>
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