More hunger due to Trump’s disorder | Economy

by Andrea
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The medical journal The Lancet has revealed in all its harshness the real impact of the global economic disorder imposed by Donald Trump. The study analyzes the effects of (USAID) dedicated to promoting sustainable growth and addressing humanitarian crises. The investigation estimates that the cuts and closure of the agency “including 4.5 million deaths among children under five years of age.” Over the past two decades, USAID-funded programs have helped prevent more than 91 million deaths, including 30 million children.

Last week the World Social Report 2025 of the United Nations, which certifies “the urgency of preventing the fall into poverty, from which it is difficult to escape.” It specifies that “more than 690 million people live in extreme poverty, on less than $2.15 a day” and “more than 2.8 billion, more than a third of the world’s population, live on between $2.15 and $6.85 a day.” And it ensures that “almost one in five people is at high risk of climate-related disasters around the world” and “one in seven people was exposed to conflict in 2024, and the number of state conflicts has doubled since 2010.”

The same days that confirm the bad omens for less developed countries. They highlight that “among low-income countries, some of the world’s poorest economies continue to experience weak growth, negatively affected by shortages in external financing flows and cuts to international aid.” “This occurs,” they add, “in the midst of these economies, as a result, among other things, of cuts in subsidies and concessional loans.” Official development assistance constitutes a significant part of gross national income in some of the most vulnerable countries in the Middle East and Africa.

This panorama recalls the theses of the economist Karl Polanyi, contained in The Great Transformation (1944), who showed that the idea of ​​self-regulation of markets has never worked. After the Second World War it was assumed that the market economy had to serve to achieve full employment and social security, financed by redistributive taxation. His daughter Kari Polanyi-Levitt has explained that then “social control was restored over the economy” and that “that was precisely the great transformation that closed the books of economic liberalism.” The experience did not last long, until the seventies of the last century, when the . The results are known: inequality, cuts to the welfare state and debt. Trump goes further. Accelerated dismantling of international organizations and rules. The consequences are very foreseeable if democracies do not stand up.

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