Economy
Poverty
In our journalism, we seek to counter prevalent narratives of poverty as something that can’t be changed. We look at how poverty is created and maintained, highlight the experiences of marginalized communities, the injustices of austerity and critique saviour-centric means of poverty alleviation.
Introducing... Decolonize How?
New Internationalist launches a one-year series exploring responses to poverty that address the reality of post-independence power dynamics within and between countries.
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Kathleen Nolan examines a simplistic non-solution to complex problems.
We can’t grow our way out of poverty
In an era of planet-wide ecological breakdown, the conventional wisdom of the growth model is crashing to an end. Jason Hickel lays it on the line
A brief history of impoverishment
Poverty between – and within – nations doesn’t just exist. It is created and needs constant maintenance.
Poverty: shut out
Poverty is not down to chance or bad choices. It’s hard wired into a deeply unequal economic system. But it doesn’t have to be that way, says Dinyar Godrej.
Spectacle and reality in Rio
Sporting mega-events purport to boost civic pride and economic growth. But their true legacy is one of rampant gentrification, argues Anne-Marie Broudehoux.
Beyond Davos: Fighting inequality on the frontline
On the eve of yet another World Economic Forum, Zubair Sayed looks at how people are mobilizing to find solutions to social problems exacerbated by inequality.
Dark clouds in Poland
Violeta Santos Moura reports from Poland, where reliance on coal kills some 45,000 people each year.
How creativity is killed in the Majority World
Tamara Pearson explains why the poor are not taken seriously on creative stages.
Finding home: Lack of affordable housing is a crisis across the West
With house prices and rents soaring, can there be a remedy to homelessness? Wayne Ellwood investigates.
Photo Gallery: visualizing Philippine democracy through UN SDGs
For International Day of Democracy, Iris Gonzales offers snap shots of the country's corruption, poverty and drug war.
Mind the technology gap - the facts
Technology can be a big enabler – yet the difference in terms of what’s available to rich and poor is vast.
Technology as if people mattered*
The world's poor are still losing out. They need a better deal, argues Dinyar Godrej.
21st-century coffin ships
As we consider the plight of today’s asylum-seekers, the fate of Irish refugees two centuries ago is instructive, writes Jeremy Seabrook.
Does our money-obsessed world really make us happy?
Life under capitalism is a long way from the image we are sold, says Amit Singh. We need another way.
Unfulfilled promises and unrelenting poverty
Iris Gonzales looks back on a difficult year for the Philippines.
The unwelcome return of development pornography
John Hilary on a degrading spectacle that keeps coming back.
The truth behind Cambodia’s inequalities
David Nathan looks at a country where gold BMWs are parked next to families living in cardboard houses.
The Western way isn’t always the best way
Development – when forced onto poor countries – is a dangerous concept, argues Amit Singh.
Is teaching English in poor countries a misguided form of philanthropy?
Such ‘aid’ will only ever lift a few out of poverty, argues Dan Falvey.
When did fair trade become a consumerist concept?
Tim Gee argues for fair trade’s return to the heart of the global justice movement.
Malaria battles in Sierra Leone
Bankolay Turay comments from Freetown on the tussle between traditional beliefs and pharmaceuticals in treating the epidemic.
NGOs must give up power
Aid organizations need to relinquish the clout that comes with money and bureaucracy, argues Oxfam’s Ben Phillips.
As the cuts bite, why bother with the global South?
Jonathan Glennie opens our Internationalists series, calling on rich nations to reject nagging stinginess and embrace radical redistribution across borders.
Living on One – the reality of a dollar-a-day existence
Struggling to understand the meaning of poverty, four students took on a challenge, with unforeseen consequences, writes Anna Bevan.
Welcome to Manila, the gates of hell
Novelist Dan Brown’s description is sadly apt, says Iris Gonzales.
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A counterfeit life in a Philippines slum
Informal dwellers are struggling to survive in Metro Manila, says Iris Gonzales.
Country Profile - Grenada
Zoe Leigh Smith reports on the tiny Caribbean island's strangling debt burden.
Country Profile: Guatemala
The country's unequal wealth distribution and rapid population growth have made it one of the poorest in Latin America, writes Anna-Claire Bevan.
Bangladesh: the great climate exodus
Families are slowly melting away from the Bay of Bengal coastline as habitats degrade. Hazel Healy speaks to new arrivals on the edge of destitution in Dhaka.
Africa’s hidden hunger
Chronic malnutrition fails to capture headlines, but is no less devastating for that, says Stefan Simanowitz.
How poor is too poor?
More than a billion people live on less than $1.25 a day.
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