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In Jordan, only 15% of women are engaged in the formal economy. Jordan is near the bottom of global rankings for economic participation and opportunity for women, ranking 145 out …
The sharing economy helps women find new economic opportunities in Jordan Read More
The coronavirus outbreak in China has come down hard on the country’s poor who cannot afford to be quarantined, have less access to supplies, and do not have the money …
Coronavirus exposes China’s rich-poor divide and personalized power networks Read More
Low-income earners, small-business owners and part-time workers are more likely to lose income following a disaster. Middle and high-income earners, full-time workers and owners of larger businesses are far less …
Increased inequality following natural disasters exacerbated by recovery funding, study shows Read More
Unpaid and underpaid care work and the global inequality crisis This report outlines how global inequality is shockingly entrenched and vast, with the number of billionaires having doubled in the …
Time to Care- Oxfam Report Read More
The 2020s look set to be the decade of make or break. The big problems we face – climate change, inequality, job creation in the face of automation, housing shortages and pressures …
Why Capitalists Need Communists Read More
From Publisher: America’s runaway inequality has an engine: our unjust tax system. Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the ultra-rich have had their taxes collapse to levels last seen in …
The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay Read More
“Each billionaire evidences our great success and failure.” Discuss. Extreme inequality doesn’t jive well with democracy, liberty and progress. Nor does revenge and retrospective action. Both extremes run the risk …
Own back Read More
Problems with pensions exhibit the same concerns that drive our inability to tackle the environmental crisis and other great societal issues. We need to recognise uncomfortable truths and meaningfully support …
Pot look Read More
Alan Freeman interprets the art of deft manipulation of fact used in painting an unrealistically assuring, yet remarkably convincing picture of international inequality. In his 1997 book, The Demon-Haunted World: …
Hidden in plain sight Read More
Chile’s capital city Santiago appears dynamic and bustling, complete with gleaming skyscrapers and a modern metro network. Against the backdrop of the snow-topped Andes mountains, the Costanera Tower – South …
Chile protests escalate as widespread dissatisfaction shakes foundations of country’s economic success story Read More