July/August 2020
Over more than forty years of unabated work to make known the information about the existence, presence and emergence of Maitreya and the Masters in our world, Benjamin Creme frequently made the point that world crises are spiritual in nature and find their most acute expression in our political and economic system of competition, greed, harsh materialism, selfishness and complacency.
Creme, as the ambassador of the Masters in the human world, reiterated the need to create a fair system of co-operation and sharing of the world resources, as our very first step on the path to our spiritual heritage. On many occasions he depicted the guidelines for the future economic system, if humanity was to make the choice of co-operation and survival of its own free will.
Consistently, he made reference to a global Marshall Plan that would be implemented under the supervision of the United Nations, as the first key pillar for the restructuring of our economic system along the lines of a shared monitoring and a fair distribution of the world resources between nations.
Despite abyssal inequalities of income between nations and between groups of nations, despite an unfair leadership of the world economic system by the G7 and then G20 nations for their own advantage, despite the predatory usurpation of wealth and power by the financial institutions and markets, despite the immeasurable suffering and misery of billions of people, this idea of a global Marshall Plan has hardly been on the political agenda of the powerful nations, nor even on the agenda of the UN agencies until now.
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Created in 1964, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is the UN agency in charge of promoting a better integration of the developing nations in the global economy in order to stimulate their economic growth.
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Among the measures that would be conducive to such a positive transformation, UNCTAD advised the following:
– End austerity and boost demand in support of sustainable and inclusive economies using an active mix of fiscal and monetary policies;
– Undertake significant public investment in clean transport and energy systems, in order to establish a low carbon growth and to transform food production for a growing global population;
– Design green industrial policies, through the means of a mix of subsidies, tax incentives, loans and guarantees, as well as accelerated investments in research and development in technology adaptation;
– Raise wages in line with productivity, as a key to moving to a fairer society;
– Regulate private financial flows as an essential policy to steer private finance toward these goals, as well as to curtail restrictive business and predatory financial practices.
