Didier Jacobs

I'm a researcher and activist interested in international development and international affairs. Views expressed here are not necessarily those of Oxfam.

[Didier Jacobs @DidierPJacobs]

i. .@IMFNews #SDRs for #GlobalCrisisRelief offer immediate, debt-free liquidity for developing nations. It's time for a new allocation to address urgent global challenges 🌍More here 👇 https://t.co/o27hrzkaSL

[Oxfam Washington DC @OxfamIFIs]

In this week’s @EQUALSHope bulletin, @OxfamIFIs' @DidierPJacobs looks at how Special Drawing Rights (#SDR) could help plug the enormous financing gaps to fight #inequality and meet development and #climate goals.

https://t.co/bwsIED0UFS

[Didier Jacobs @DidierPJacobs]

#SDRs are a goose that lays golden eggs. Let her live!
SDRs can be used toward development and climate goals. The monetary policy logic that underpins them justifies annual allocations of $200bn and doubling the share going to the Global South.
https://t.co/xleylphDfQ

[Didier Jacobs @DidierPJacobs]

Special Drawing Rights (#SDRs) can play a role in development and climate finance. See how much and how in my new publication (+ a FAQ on SDRs for beginners): https://t.co/KBNgKb7M1F

[OxfamAmerica @OxfamAmerica]

This is big! 65 heads of state and major world leaders just sent an open letter to @GovKathyHochul @CarlHeastie @AndreaSCousins urging New York to pass the Sovereign Debt Stability Act! https://t.co/wOjzqAexgd

[Didier Jacobs @DidierPJacobs]

My event on Special Drawing Rights last week at the Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank: https://t.co/78yvmumK6A

[Didier Jacobs @DidierPJacobs]

Please join me at this event next week to discuss this wonderful breakthrough for the world that was the allocation of $650 billion of Special Drawing Rights in 2021 and what that may mean for the future. April 17 at 2pmEST. https://t.co/Ph63dhElqC

[Latindadd in English @Latindadd_Eng]

🔵 #SpringMeetings – #CSPF2024 EVENT | We invite you to our session The future of Special Drawing Rights as a development finance tool: What’s next? where we will debate the merits and caveats of future SDR allocations and reforms, their use for development and climate finance.
📌 Click here to join: https://t.co/dl9MMjXeUb
🗓️ Date: April 17th
⏰  Time: 14:00 (ET)

#IMF #worldbank
@ecuarauz

[Didier Jacobs @DidierPJacobs]

A comic on #cancethedebt by our friends at @ESCRnet
https://t.co/TeTMj5rFIO

[Oxfam in Palestine @oxfampalestine]

As President Biden @POTUS visits #Israel, @OxfamAmerica President & CEO @abbymaxman said: “Now is the time for a #ceasefire, and we are counting on US leadership to achieve just that.” #CeasefireNow
https://t.co/fZ4idCRHiJ

[Didier Jacobs @DidierPJacobs]

"Two billion people are living in countries that shouldn't borrow more. That's a huge problem as climate change requires a lot of capital investment. We need solidarity with aid" My punchline of Euromoney's overview of the global debt crisis #cancelthedebt https://t.co/eLXs6ukB5T

[Daniel Munevar @danielmunevar]

IMF program for Sri Lanka is based on the assumption that the country will be able to effectively double tax revenues as a share of GDP in 4 years. The description panglossian comes to mind @paulonbjr

[Didier Jacobs @DidierPJacobs]

@danielmunevar @paulonbjr ... while keeping government expenditure flat as a percentage of GDP! Imagine the marketing challenge: double your taxes and don't see any improved public service in return!

[South Centre @South_Centre]

OECD Global Minimum Tax requires quick policy responses by developing countries to avoid losing their taxes to developed countries & tax havens.

[Didier Jacobs @DidierPJacobs]

Glad that @AtlasMovement spotted @FaccioTommaso to #TaxTheRich

[Colombe Cahen-Salvador @ColombeCS]

Thrilled to have @FaccioTommaso join @AtlasMovement ' global #UnityDay event on Sept. 2⃣ to talk about 🥁 how to tax multinational companies 💰

Join us to hear from him, and then brainstorm with our amazing 🔥 community on solutions & implementation!

https://t.co/n1EhF1KqYD

[DebtJustice.bsky.social @debtjustice]

The global economy is becoming the wild west as cowboy lenders get away with forcing countries already struggling with climate crisis and poverty to pay them back in full - just to make profit.

We can get a new law to #StopCowboyLenders

Take Action 👉https://t.co/dsTTu1IeHG

[Didier Jacobs @DidierPJacobs]

I speak tomorrow on the Redistributive Impact of Fiscal Policy (SDG10.4.2) indicator
https://t.co/5aU4a99MZ2

[Didier Jacobs @DidierPJacobs]

A cool guide to macroeconomics for dummies
https://t.co/atH39pzCNh

[DebtJustice.bsky.social @debtjustice]

Ghanaian civil society organisations have today said external private lenders must be made to #CancelTheDebt

Because "they lent seeking high returns, it is only right that following these economic shocks, private lenders willingly accept losses"

https://t.co/gXjhDCD09F

[Editorial office D+C @forumdc]

The IMF must change its current practice, argue Kristina Rehbein and Malina Stutz from @erlassjahr. Here are 5️⃣ measures that they think necessary. ⬇️ #debt

https://t.co/9lP6f4x6Li

[Didier Jacobs @DidierPJacobs]

Great news: breakthrough in Europe to implement the global minimum tax
https://t.co/GTLuAMYPJ8