Topic: Inequality
Only internationalism can beat Covid-19
Blog / 21st April 2020Tackling the coronavirus demands international action and solidarity on all fronts - not just for reasons of equity, but also practicality, writes Vanessa Baird for the New Internationalist.
Wird Covid-19 ein Notrettungsprogramm für die Ärmsten der Welt in Gang setzen?
Article / 14th April 2020Die einzige Gewissheit ist, dass die am stärksten gefährdeten und ausgeschlossenen Mitglieder der Gesellschaft, wie bei allen Wirtschaftskrisen, die schlimmsten Folgen tragenwerden.
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.
Will Covid-19 spur a peoples’ bailout for the world’s poorest?
Article / 7th April 2020The question is whether Covid-19 will awaken us to the stark inequalities of our world, or does it simply represent a new cause of impoverishment for the vast swathes of humanity who have long been disregarded by the public’s conscience.
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.
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.
‘America in a state of denial about the level of poverty in this country,’ says Ocasio-Cortez
Blog / 7th February 2020In testimony to a House committee this week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez argued that the current U.S. administration does not want to recognise the level of poverty in America "because if we did, it would be a national scandal."
Do not confuse food charity with ‘right to food’, UN expert tells Italians, labelling food system exploitative
News / 7th February 2020A sophisticated Italian food system is placing a heavy burden on Italy’s workers and farmers, an independent UN human rights expert has concluded, following an 11-day visit to the country that many regard as the world’s food capital.
New leadership for the IMF, same old hypocrisy?
Article / 30th January 2020With its latest pronouncements on the threat of rising inequality, can we expect to see an International Monetary Fund that firmly rejects the austerity policies it has historically pushed? Unfortunately not, explains Sam Pizzigati for Inequality.org.