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24 Oct 2022 2 minute read

Introducing... Decolonize How?

New Internationalist launches a one-year series exploring responses to poverty that address the reality of...

12 May 2022 7 minute read

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Please continue to not sponsor this child

Kathleen Nolan examines a simplistic non-solution to complex problems.

Wary looks: Ntombekhaya Sobuza and little sister Asanele outside their shack constructed from packaging materials from a Volkswagen plant, on the outskirts of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. JAMES OATWAY/PANOS

19 Apr 2020 11 minute read

This article is more than three years old.

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...

President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, a critic of Western influence over his country, meets with US President John F Kennedy. There may have been smiles all around but Nkrumah’s cards were marked. ABBIE ROWE/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

19 Apr 2020 7 minute read

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A brief history of impoverishment

Poverty between – and within – nations doesn’t just exist. It is created and needs constant maintenance.

19 Apr 2020 7 minute read

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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. ...

6 Aug 2019 19 minute read

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Progress and its discontents

According to Bill Gates, Steven Pinker and the like, the world has never been better and global poverty is shrinking....

4 Aug 2019 7 minute read

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Spectacle and reality in Rio

Sporting mega-events purport to boost civic pride and economic growth. But their true legacy is one of rampant...

15 Jan 2019 3 minute read

This article is almost five years old.

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...

13 Jun 2018 4 minute read

This article is more than five years old.

Dark clouds in Poland

Violeta Santos Moura reports from Poland, where reliance on coal kills some 45,000 people each year.

White saviours: challenging poverty tourism

1 Mar 2018 1 minute read

This article is more than five years old.

White saviours: challenging poverty tourism

Norwegian activists are challenging ‘white-saviour’ attitudes that over-simplify poverty writes Tom Lawson...

9 Mar 2018 1 minute read

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Black Lives - THE FACTS

The impacts of racism can be seen in almost all aspects of everyday life.

A community school in Baranca Honda, Puebla state, Mexico. Photo: Tamara Pearson

15 Nov 2017 6 minute read

This article is almost six years old.

How creativity is killed in the Majority World

Tamara Pearson explains why the poor are not taken seriously on creative stages.

1 Oct 2017 10 minute read

This article is almost six years old.

‘We have a lot to teach the city’

Favela dwellers speak to Vanessa Baird about police violence and creative resistance.

1 Jun 2017 10 minute read

This article is more than six years old.

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.

1 Jun 2017 1 minute read

This article is more than six years old.

Homelessness – the facts

Everything you need to know about homelessness, from this month's magazine.

24 May 2017 4 minute read

This article is more than six years old.

Billions are being pumped out of Africa every year, research shows

Tax havens, transnational companies and climate change: the world keeps exploiting Africa. Matthew Bramall...

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