A full list of STWR’s publications as well as related news, articles and blogs can be found below.
Billionaire wealth just shrunk, but Coronavirus is no great leveller
Blog / 23rd March 2020While the world’s richest have seen a dip in their stock holdings, those on the bottom of the wealth scale will bear the heaviest burden of the crisis, writes Max Lawson for inequality.org.
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.
Out of service: How public services and human rights are being threatened by the growing debt crisis
Report / 11th March 2020Public services play a critical role in advancing human rights and fighting inequality. But growing levels of external public debt threaten the very services on which citizens depend in order to have even a basic standard of living, explains a report by Eurodad.
Financial markets can’t be trusted to solve pandemics
Blog / 11th March 2020If the coronavirus has any positive impact, let it prompt us to learn the limitations of the market and the urgent need for regulation, taxation and public services, says Nick Dearden for Al Jazeera.
Social protection necessary to quickly end poverty, hunger
Blog / 6th March 2020Social protection is a universal human right, and governments have the tools at their disposal to end hunger and poverty sustainably. Yet the majority of humanity remain unprotected, explain Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury.