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Filipino healthcare workers have found themselves thrust to the frontlines of the pandemic to care for the most vulnerable across the globe. The Philippines is one of the world’s leading …
Returning ‘heroes’: Filipino migrant workers met with a devastated economy Read More
The Central Bank of Libya on Sunday introduced a new unified exchange rate agreed last month after years of division between rival branches based on opposing sides of the front …
Libya starts using new exchange rate as economy struggles Read More
In mid November, South Dakota emergency room nurse Jodi Doering tweeted her experience of caring for dying patients. Many, she said, were denying the existence of COVID-19 until their final breaths. Their last dying …
The Less Equal We Become, the Less We Trust Science Read More
Covid-19 is clearly the crisis that defined 2020, but millions of people were forced to grapple with natural disasters alongside the pandemic. A Biblical deluge of record-breaking Atlantic hurricanes, devastating …
What natural disasters cost the global economy in 2020 Read More
The coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout will help China rise past the US to become the world’s largest economy, a new report shows. Beijing is now expected to overtake the …
China to overtake US as largest global economy by 2028: report Read More
As the European Union seeks to transition to a ‘circular economy’, the policy focus in 2021 will turn to products: how they are designed, and why so many seem to …
Product design policy will be key to circular economy, EU says Read More
Fatima lay in bed at the internal medicine ward at the bustling Mirwais Hospital in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar – a black scarf draped over her head and …
A quiet crisis: As the economy fractures, violence soars for Afghan women Read More
15 December should be a turning point in the IMF’s relationship to the people of Ecuador: a chance for reflection, a fresh start in a new year, an opportunity to …
IMF austerity is strangling Ecuador – again. Read More
In-work poverty increased over the last decade in most European countries, with around 12% of workers at risk of poverty, according to the latest report by the European Trade Union …
One in ten European workers at risk of poverty, study says Read MoreWage inequality is getting worse, according to new data from the Social Security Administration, which shows a steady trickle-up effect in worker income during every period for the last four …
Eye-popping wage report charts 40 years of worsening income inequality as the top 1% thrive Read More