Tim Hirschel-Burns
@TimH_B
Working @GDP_Center for a global economy that advances development. Past: Oxfam, @YaleLawSch, 🇧🇯. Views my own. http://timhirschelburns.bsky.social
🌍 The International Maritime Organisation (@IMOHQ) has set a strategy to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping by 2050. As part of this, it is developing a draft Net-Zero Framework that includes provisions for revenue generation to support the…
As a longtime humanitarian who has battled famines and hunger crises, I fear that starvation in Gaza has now passed the tipping point and we are going to see mass-scale starvation mortality. A thread on famine momentum, famine response, and what it means for Gaza today.
Doctors and health officials report wave of hunger deaths in Gaza on.ft.com/46iUoK6
One other thing this does—which is consistent w/ a lot of foreign aid polling—is to complicate the push to frame development advocacy as self-interest. The simple do-gooder stuff (medicine, food, etc) often polls better than “teach a man to fish” framings and even security aid
uh this is a pretty big narrative violation? 83% of Americans support giving medicine to developing nations 78% support giving them food and clothing 63% support economic development 61% support strengthening democracy close enough, welcome back liberal internationalism
"Since election day, net favorability of the US is down 20%, meaning that more people around the world now view the US negatively than positively." "On a personal level, Trump is less popular globally than Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin" ht @TimH_B timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/what-has-the…
Mr @POTUS @JDVance @BernieSanders @RobertKennedyJr @RepThomasMassie @RoKhanna can we please get aid into GAZA NOW?! Children are starving to death!! We are America. This isnt about politics. This is about humanity.
My latest, from the Israel-Gaza border, where I listened in as tour groups came to view the ruins of Gaza. irishtimes.com/world/middle-e…
The ICJ ruling is awesome and important but my general take remains that climate tort cases in domestic courts (which includes those from international plaintiffs) have a lot more potential than the set of cases ordering governments to comply with climate obligations
I was lucky to present to members of Congress last week on the debt crisis in Africa. Almost nothing does more to stifle Africa’s potential (and the benefits it could offer the US) more than the failures of the international economy that push African countries into debt crises
As the US accuses South Africa of white genocide and punishes it for standing up against a real genocide in Gaza, remember that Nelson Mandela was on the US terror watch list until 2008
United States lawmakers have voted to advance a bill that proposes reviewing the U.S. relationship with South Africa due to objections over its foreign policy and potentially imposing sanctions on South African officials. reuters.com/world/africa/u…
Absolutely everything they cut—from USAID to Medicaid to NPR—was to give tax cuts to rich people. That’s what the $3.4 trillion increase in the deficit makes clear. There’s no argument they had to make those cuts to reduce the deficit. All this was to make rich people richer
Final CBO score of the "big beautiful bill" is out Biggest Medicaid cuts ever - in fact, 4 times the size of the previous biggest; $894-$990 bn Kicks 10 million off health insurance Biggest SNAP cuts ever, $187 bn Still increases deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts
Tough day for the comms folks at the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, one of the five branches of the World Bank
