Topic: Inequality
Read STWR's flagship book: ‘Heralding Article 25’
News / 1st January 2020Share The World’s Resources (STWR) have released a book version of the pioneering publication by Mohammed Sofiane Mesbahi, titled 'Heralding Article 25: A people's strategy for world transformation'.
Christmas and Thanksgiving for the 21st century
Article / 17th December 2019To truly celebrate Christmas and Thanksgiving means opening our hearts to the world’s problems of hunger, poverty, injustice and environmental crisis. If we understand the dire predicament of the societies in which we live, then it must be evident that we, too, are part of the problem, writes Rok Kralj.
Inequality threatening human development, new global UN report warns
News / 10th December 2019Despite global progress in tackling poverty, hunger and disease, a “new generation of inequalities” indicates that many societies are not working as they should, the UN Development Programme argues in its latest report.
A proposal for the global sharing of basic goods
Report / 9th December 2019The following publication gives an advanced proposal for sharing the world’s resources to alleviate the major crises threatening our civilisation. Translated into English from Slovenian, by Rok Kralj.
It’s time to retire metrics like GDP. They don’t measure everything that matters
Blog / 2nd December 2019The way we assess economic performance and social progress is fundamentally wrong, and the climate crisis has brought these concerns to the fore, writes Joseph Stiglitz.
The ILO’s Global Social Protection Week needs to address austerity, the elephant in the room
Article / 26th November 2019Financing social protection systems that are both adequate and sustainable is not a fantasy. There are a number of measures that governments can take to raise the resources needed, writes Evelyn Astor for Equal Times.
Imagine… a world that shares
Article / 25th November 2019Do we really understand what ‘sharing’ means in its totality? For humanity has done everything but actually put into practice a just and equitable redistribution of the food and resources of the world, so that no-one need go without. By Marc Gregory.
The intersection of politics and spirituality in addressing the climate crisis
Report / 22nd November 2019The following interview with STWR’s founder, Mohammed Sofiane Mesbahi, examines both the contemporary political and profounder spiritual implications of sharing the world’s resources in relation to the escalating climate emergency.
Eine Einführung in das globale wirtschaftliche Teilen
Report / 16th November 2019In einer zunehmend ungleichen und nicht nachhaltigen Welt müssen die Regierungen dringend die restriktiven politischen und wirtschaftlichen Ideologien der Vergangenheit überwinden und Lösungen finden, die den gemeinsamen Bedürfnissen der Menschen in allen Ländern gerecht werden.
Chile learns the price of economic inequality
Blog / 30th October 2019Protesters are demanding a larger share of the nation’s prosperity — a reality check for its celebrated economic model. There is no alternative to simply spreading the wealth more evenly, writes a group of opinion journalists at the New York Times.