Alicja Paulina Krubnik – The Conversation

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, left, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, centre, and Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, pose for a photo ahead of the Financing for Development meeting in Seville, Spain, in June 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Angel Garcia)

July 23, 2025

How public development banks could narrow inequality gaps between the Global North and South

Alicja Paulina Krubnik, McMaster University

Public Development Banks provide affordable financing, direct resources where urgently needed and align funding with long-term development strategies.

A worker rakes wheat in a granary on a farm near Kyiv in August 2023, a month after Russia pulled out of a deal aimed at protecting ships carrying Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

November 5, 2023

Grain as a weapon: Russia‑Ukraine war reveals how capitalism fuels global hunger

Alicja Paulina Krubnik, McMaster University

The Ukraine war’s impact on food insecurity is critical, but there is more to the picture. The main problem is that capitalism allows food and other basic needs to become precarious commodities.

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