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20 Feb 2023 10 minute read

Tax Justice Network Africa's historic win

Could a Kenyan court case point the way towards a more just tax system? Amy Hall investigates.

1 Dec 2021 4 minute read

This article is more than one year old.

Tunisia: at a glance

A decade on from the revolution, and after a succession of chaotic governments, is democracy teetering in Tunisia, asks...

7 Jun 2021 3 minute read

This article is almost two years old.

What if…we all got paid the same

Vanessa Baird imagines turning the tide on wage inequality.

Profit over the planet: A care-based economy would do the opposite. ZHANG KAIYV/UNSPLASH

30 Nov 2020 6 minute read

This article is more than two years old.

Embedding the economy – with care

Richard Swift examines the deep roots of the market economy’s failures. Time for a radical rethink.

A car cleaner in Monrovia, Liberia. Informal workers have been hardest hit by lockdown measures. TOMMY E TRENCHARD/ALAMY

14 Oct 2020 6 minute read

This article is more than two years old.

A human story

Economies in a tailspin will need a different vision to steady them, believes Dinyar Godrej.

19 Apr 2020 7 minute read

This article is almost three years old.

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. ...

7 Jan 2019 6 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

Investor rex

The beast that won’t lie down and die – the ISDS ‘investor protection’ racket is still with us, in all but name.

20 Nov 2018 2 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

How we chose the cover of NI516

A dump in Cambodia and a child waste-picker to show that our waste never really disappear.

1 Mar 2016 9 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

'Our friends': Saudi Arabia and the West

Vanessa Baird takes a look at this ‘special relationship’.

20 Mar 2015 4 minute read

This article is more than eight years old.

10 reasons to defend the Corporation Tax

It’s easy to evade austerity and enjoy welfare benefits to the full if you’re a transnational corporation. David...

29 Jan 2015 4 minute read

This article is more than eight years old.

Greece says no to austerity, and so should we...

Austerity is a morally and literally bankrupt ideology, reports Kerry-anne Mendoza.

14 Jan 2015 4 minute read

This article is more than eight years old.

Rejecting Austerity

Austerity
is transforming
Britain from a social democracy to a corporate state,
says Kerry-anne...

30 Oct 2014 7 minute read

This article is more than eight years old.

Eight Facts About American Inequality

Pierce Nahigyan points out some hard facts on the country’s economy.

29 Jan 2014 8 minute read

This article is more than nine years old.

Defending people’s milk in India

A vibrant network of small producers and milk co-operatives is threatened by free trade agreements and liberalized investment...

18 Nov 2013 4 minute read

This article is more than nine years old.

So… co-operatives can build a better world, right?

A year after the Blueprint for a Co-operative Decade was launched, it’s time to assess whether co-ops are ready and willing to...

14 Oct 2013 3 minute read

This article is more than nine years old.

Violence against protesters in Sudan leaves hundreds dead

Nahla Mahmoud despairs at the Sudanese government’s failure to take the current unrest seriously.

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