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The global pandemic has led to major structural increases in public expenditures to support health, incomes and employment. The question of who will ultimately foot the bill will need to be answered. A report launched on 15 June by the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation alerts that the economic burden must not fall disproportionately on disadvantaged groups and countries.

Victoria Falls is known locally as Mosi-oa Tunya ("The Smoke that Thunders") due to the power of the water from the Zambezi River that often flows across one of the great wonders of the world. Today it is a mere trickle.

The huge impacts of businesses on the communities in which they operate often bring benefits, but companies can disregard and even harm people’s rights in pursuit of economic gain. The WCC, ACT Alliance and the Lutheran World Federation hosted a side event at the 6th United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights in Geneva on 28 November, in this context.

Um widersprüchliche Erfahrungen mit der von ausländischen Investitionen abhängigen Entwicklung und sozioökonomischen Ungerechtigkeit besser zu verstehen, haben Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer des Ökumenischen Seminars für Leitung, Wirtschaft und Management im Dienst einer Ökonomie des Lebens (GEM School) am 22. August ein Bergwerk besucht.

To witness and attempt to understand contrasting narratives of foreign investment-linked development and socio-economic injustice, participants of the Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics and Management for an Economy of Life (GEM School) visited a mining company on 22 August.

Um innerhalb der Kirchen die Wirtschaftskompetenz zu fördern, fand vom 21. August bis 1. September in Lusaka (Sambia) das zweite Ökumenische Seminar für Leitung, Wirtschaft und Management im Dienst einer Ökonomie des Lebens (GEM School) statt.

With the aim of building competency in economics within churches, the second Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics and Management for an Economy of Life (GEM School) was held from 21 August - 1 September in Lusaka, Zambia.

In Africa, trade, aid and investments from the European Union (EU), United States (US) and China have not fully addressed the roots of poverty, inequality and ecological degradation. Churches, therefore, need to engage in a “development dialogue” to support alternative economic agendas, which can help eradicate poverty, while safeguarding Africa’s natural riches.