Coronavirus could turn back the clock 30 years on global poverty
News / 12th April 2020The economic impact of the global shutdown could push half a billion people into privation, researchers warn.
New release of popular STWR book: Achieving a truly universal basic income
News / 1st April 2020In response to high demand, STWR have published an updated book version of our perspective on a universal basic income.
Urgent call to head off new debt crisis in developing world
News / 23rd March 2020Rapid action is needed to head off the risk of a new debt crisis in the world’s poorest countries amid evidence that the Covid-19 pandemic is raising borrowing costs and hitting commodity exports, according to a leading campaign group.
World ‘way off track’ on climate targets, UN experts warn after five hottest years on record
News / 11th March 2020The world is “way off track” from meeting targets to limit global warming as the signs of a climate emergency grow more damaging, the United Nations has warned.
Corrupt elites siphon aid money intended for world’s poorest
News / 21st February 2020A new study has found that as much as a sixth of foreign aid intended for the world’s poorest countries has flowed into bank accounts in tax havens owned by elites.