Financial Inclusion
From the publisher: Should the public play a greater role within the financial system? Decisions about money are a part of our everyday lives. Supporters promote financial inclusion as a …
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China’s economy grew in 2020, but only the rich are “revenge spending”
China today reported 2.3% growth in GDP last year, making it the first and probably only major country whose economy expanded in 2020. But a marked decrease in consumer spending, …
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Israel vaccinates 1 million Israelis against coronavirus, and zero Palestinians
Israel has achieved the startling feat of being the fastest country to administer coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccines. But as we would expect, the beneficiaries have been exclusively its own citizens, not the several million Palestinians …
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Share the Wealth
From the publisher: A new perspective on the neoliberal world through the prism of rents and rentiers How can we reduce inequalities? How can we make work get better recognition …
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The Less Equal We Become, the Less We Trust Science
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 …
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No trickle-down: Tax cuts for rich fuel inequality, study finds
Tax cuts for rich people breed inequality without providing much of a boon to anyone else, according to a study of the advanced world that could add to the case …
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A quiet crisis: As the economy fractures, violence soars for Afghan women
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 …
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People count
Marianna Leite discusses the need for a global economic overhaul. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic we have been bombarded with statements, rapid assessments and calls to action. We …
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Gap analysis
A woman’s work: “Producing well-socialised human beings, who collectively are often referred to as the labour supply.” Jennifer Cohen explains why there are no such things as women’s economic issues. …
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Eye-popping wage report charts 40 years of worsening income inequality as the top 1% thrive
Wage 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 …
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