Poverty

Dan Smith gets to grips with the UN High Level Panel’s report on international development post-2015, and argues that it needs to go deeper.

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Amy Hall joins the London climax of the IF campaign and finds herself musing the age old question – can you change the system from within?

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Conditions imposed by the IMF and World Bank increase inequality and show little regard for marginalized people, writes Mari Marcel Thekaekara.

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Where is the urgency in helping the poor and sick, like Baby Willgesta? asks Sokari Ekine.

Filed in: Haiti Health Poverty

Novelist Dan Brown’s description is sadly apt, says Iris Gonzales.

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While commercial interests look to ‘seize opportunity’ in the country, Sokari Ekine has seen an increase in the level of poverty.

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And they mark a dangerous regression from food-as-right to food-as-charity, argues Tom Belger.

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Four decades of independent journalism and the social and environmental movements which inspired it.

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It is refreshing to hear a piece of good news that will impact on people living in poverty across the globe, writes Mari Marcel Thekaekara.

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Prices through the roof, a gaping deficit, homelessness, one billion in slums and an urban takeover.

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Juan Rodriguez wants to raise $50,000 to bring affordable light to the poor. Anna Bevan explains.

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