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We need to audit development banks’ role in pandemic response
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Cancel the Debt in the face of the health, economic and climate crises!
The G7 Summit will take place in Germany from June 26 – June 28, 2022, and this is in a world that has seen little substantive change over many decades. On top![Now would be a good time for the IMF to do away with unfair and unnecessary surcharges](https://arabwatchcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/poverty-g56940ee78_1920.jpg)
Now would be a good time for the IMF to do away with unfair and unnecessary surcharges
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