It will take multiple centuries to end poverty at the rate we're going, according to a recently published report. Oxfam International published its inequality report this month, detailing a slew of ...

“Inequality is bad for economic growth and bad for poverty reduction. In the past researchers were not able to exactly quantify the effect of inequality in the context of economic shocks. This graph ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Latin American poverty levels in 2023 fell to a 33-year low, led by progress in Brazil, the United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said in ...

Stigma is a glue that holds poverty, inequality and economic insecurity in place enabling and exacerbating inequalities of wealth, health and opportunity, says a new report. Poverty Stigma is a ...

WASHINGTON, December 4, 2024 – Unequal and limited access to jobs, finance, and public services such as education and healthcare have increased inequality and stalled poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan ...

This Weekly Dispatch takes a deep dive into breaking events and issues of significance in our world today, providing the background readers need to make better sense of the headlines speeding past us ...

Robert Reich, former cabinet minister and advisor to Presidents Ford, Carter, Clinton, and Obama, is promoting his memoirs with an exceptional claim: the problem we face is generational, the Boomers’ ...

LET’S dismantle the tales.The Zimbabwean government’s constant invocation of the dream of becoming an “upper-middle-income economy” by 2030 has been presented as a promise of prosperity, dignity, and ...

Eleni Abraham Yitbarek is affiliated with Partnership for Economic Policy (Research Fellow) Kehinde Oluwaseun Omotoso is affiliated with DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Social Policy, College of Graduate ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JOHANNESBURG (AP) — As 72-year-old Nonki ...

People living in societies with more corruption, inequality, poverty and violence are more likely to exhibit "dark" personality traits—like narcissism, psychopathy and spitefulness. This is the ...

On the skydeck of the Superwoof Dog Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa, the guests are having a blast. Some splash about in a shallow plunge pool, while others chase after balls thrown by the hotel ...