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Anass Bouzid has long held the dream of emigrating to Germany. He’d love to go to Frankfurt, because the German financial hub is where some of his family live, he …
Economic boom in Tangier leaves a few winners and many losers Read More
The fossil fuel industry continues to use a long list of deceptive tactics to conceal environmental destruction that harms Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and low-income communities. That’s the …
NAACP Report: Fossil Fuel Industry Uses Deception to Conceal Damage to BIPOC Communities Read More Europe has an opportunity to use the textiles strategy, due to be published this year, to build on its history of textile manufacturing and switch to a more sustainable industry, …
A circular economy for textiles to design out waste and pollution Read More
It has been a year since a poorly planned and violently implemented lockdown led to the forced displacement of migrant workers from our cities. Countless stories of violence, hunger, death …
A Year Since the Lockdown, Women Migrant Workers Remain Unrecognised Read More
Lindsey Hall tells of the ideas behind Real Ideas. Since we founded Real Ideas fourteen years ago, we have worked with all kinds of ideas – big concepts, quirky thoughts, …
Out of our heads Read More
After all, it’s hard to bite the hand that feeds you. As a teenager, I recall my father informing me that to make real money you need to be close …
What is corruption? Read More
Two cars yet nowhere to go. But how did she get where she is? Lockdown has certainly left everyone frazzled. I have been trying to get on with writing my …
Double parked Read More
Foreign investment: Rick Rowden recounts the tale of who’s wagging the dog. When Mexico adopted a tax on high-fructose corn syrup as part of an effort to address the …
Sovereign states on a leash Read More
Tatiana Araujo de Sirqueira, a 33-year-old single mother of six, and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro are almost neighbours, but they inhabit different universes. Sirqueira lives by a landfill less than …
Brazilians thrown back into poverty as COVID aid dries up Read More
Tom Bergin is an award-winning, financial journalist of long standing. He tends to specialise in the seamier side of corporate behaviour, his previous book being on the BP Horizon disaster. …
The coarse in economics Read More