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As a key conclusion, the conference declared the urgent need for a new economic agenda — one that not only confronts today’s crises but also lays the foundation for a new world with a socialist horizon.

In the past two decades, the external debt of the developing countries has quadrupled to $11.4 trillion (2023). 

Controlling energy—the foundation of any economy—in a sovereign and independent way is in the interest of any government.

Industry, as the fundamental engine of economic and social growth, remains central to the future of this group of countries, but with a new approach. This requires consistent, long-term policies. The challenge is great, but not impossible.

In the IV Dilemmas of Humanity Conference, economists from Russia, China, and Brazil discussed different proposals for creating a new financial architecture to help nations escape the US-dominated system

The final panel of the conference provided a synthesis focused on the need to build on the work developed throughout the IV Dilemmas of Humanity Conference.

The panel on day 3 of the conference focused on the unequal geopolitics of industrialization in Latin America, East Asia and the other countries of the Global South.

The third panel of the 4th International Conference on Dilemmas of Humanity brought together representatives from Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Arab and Maghreb region to discuss how to build an alternative agenda for social transformation.

Jeffrey Sachs’ presentation at the IV Dilemmas of Humanity Conference: Perspectives for Social Transformation

Fernando Haddad's speech at Dilemmas of Humanity about the proposal by Lula's government to tax the rich