Topic: Inequality

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Investing in poor children saves lives, and money

Report / 29th June 2017

The total number of children that die of preventable causes worldwide continues to decline, says the United Nations children’s agency, but such progress disguises a still-massive and intolerable death toll.

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Reclaiming public services

Report / 28th June 2017

Reclaiming Public Services is vital reading for anyone interested in the future of local, democratic services like energy, water and health care. This is an in-depth world tour of new initiatives in public ownership and the variety of approaches to deprivatisation.

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UN: Special rapporteur on extreme poverty urges 'serious discussion' of basic income

News / 27th June 2017

A Special Rapporteur of the United Nations held a panel discussion on universal basic income and the future of human rights on June 8, 2017, in which the prospects for achieving this progressive policy were discussed alongside prominent supporters.

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The politics of ‘progress’: UN report paints a highly partial picture of SDG implementation

Blog / 23rd June 2017

The recent Progress Report on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) paints a skewed and misleading picture about how SDG implementation is proceeding, while hindering any form of accountability. 

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Here’s why donating £2 a month cannot possibly end poverty

Article / 22nd June 2017

To stop global inequality, aid agencies must ramp up their campaigns against the issues – such as unjust trade deals and climate change – that help it thrive. By Matthew Bramall of Health Poverty Action.

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Will the US abandon the world’s poorest?

Blog / 22nd June 2017

Donald Trump’s proposed cuts to foreign aid disproportionately target the poorest countries, and serve a signal that this administration is not concerned with fighting poverty, writes Aria Grabowski from Oxfam America.

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South Sudan no longer has 'famine,' UN says, but 2 million remain near starvation

News / 22nd June 2017

South Sudan no longer has areas in famine, but almost two million people are on the brink of starvation and an estimated six million people — half the population — will face extreme food insecurity between June and July, according to reports by the government and the United Nations.

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One person forced to flee their home every three seconds by war and violence

Article / 22nd June 2017

The number of people forced to flee their homes by war and persecution has risen to record levels for the third year running, with 65.6 million people displaced around the world – more than the population of Britain.

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Overfed and underfed: global food extremes

Article / 22nd June 2017

The two food extremes – chronic undernourishment and obesity – are worldwide challenges, impacting the well being of more than one-fifth of humanity. Despite all the expressed concerns, laudable goals, increased expenditures and commendable efforts, still there is no answer for how to fundamentally tackle these twin crises. By Joseph Chamie, former director of the United Nations Population Division.

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Tax evaders exposed: why the super-rich are even richer than we thought

Article / 18th June 2017

Analysis of a massive trove of data – much of it leaked from tax havens – suggests that inequality levels across the world should be revised upwards dramatically. By Annette Alstadsæter, Niels Johannesen and Gabriel Zucman.

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