More: Inequality
How to ensure the poor and vulnerable don’t shoulder the cost of the COVID-19 crisis
In the wake of the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis, tax systems should be reformed, and tax avoidance and evasion reduced, to ensure an economic recovery...
Pandemic “Locked Down” People’s Life in the Developing and the Poor Countries
Due to pandemic pressures, the countries around the world are preoccupied with matters of lack of human resources, medical equipment, and tamping capacity of...
How the reservation system of India is defining a new era of human rights violation
India at the time of its independence made a provision to reserve around 22 per cent of the seats in education and government jobs....
‘Business as unusual’: How COVID-19 could change the future of work
Millions of people around the world have been working remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic and now experts are asking whether this “business as...
COVID-19 cruelly highlights inequalities and threatens to deepen them
In many countries, income inequality has risen steeply since the 1980s, with adverse social and economic consequences. The COVID-19 pandemic now cruelly highlights those...
How’s Life? reveals improvements in well-being but persistent inequalities
Life has generally improved for many people in OECD countries over the past
10 years but inequalities persist and insecurity, despair and disconnection
affect significant parts...
Revealed: Why Economies Benefit from Fixing Inequality
Creating societies where every person has the same opportunity to fulfil
their potential in life irrespective of socioeconomic background would not only
bring huge societal benefits...
Inequality compromises inclusive growth and social cohesion
The
International Labour Organization (ILO), in a joint statement with other
international agencies attending the Paris G7 meeting, has called for countries
to implement a range of...
The Chosen Family from Church to Earth
Guess at
the intensity behind my words. ‘Give me a place to stand,’ said Archimedes,
‘and I will move the world.’ After all that is said...
Inequality threatening human development
Despite global progress in tackling poverty, hunger and disease,
a “new generation of inequalities” indicates that many societies are not
working as they should, the UN Development Programme (UNDP)...