
Tackling the COVID Hunger Crisis
Feb 11, 2021 & call for immediate international action to prevent widespread starvation and keep children in school.
Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom, is United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and Chair of the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity. He chairs the Advisory Board of the Catalyst Foundation.
Feb 11, 2021 & call for immediate international action to prevent widespread starvation and keep children in school.
Nov 13, 2020 & call for full employment to be at the heart of the United Kingdom’s fiscal and monetary policy.
Aug 17, 2020 urges governments and multilateral organizations to prioritize support for education during the crisis.
Jul 13, 2020 & show which interventions are needed to offset pandemic-induced learning losses – and how to pay for them.
Jun 3, 2020 , et al. urge G20 leaders to agree on stronger global measures to mitigate the pandemic's economic and health impact.
Many would regard the middle of a pandemic-induced economic crisis as the wrong time to sound the alarm about the potential dangers of profligate government spending. But as US President Joe Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion economic rescue plan works its way through Congress, it is not only Republicans who are asking whether providing too much fiscal stimulus could be just as risky as delivering too little.