Essay: Welcome to America’s new Gilded Age

Rev PAUL BRANDEIS RAUSHENBUSH, president and CEO of Interfaith Alliance, says, in an article first published on Religion News Service, that Trump’s praise for a 19th-century President answers the question so many have been asking: When does Trump believe America was great? It’s the Gilded Age…
Nobel economics prize goes to inequality researchers

Stockholm, Sweden Reuters Three US-based academics won the 2024 Nobel economics prize on Monday for research that explored the aftermath of colonisation to understand why global inequality persists today, especially in countries dogged by corruption and dictatorship. Simon Johnson and James Robinson, both British-American, and Turkish-American Daron Acemoglu were commended for their work on “how […]
South Africa leader pledges to revive economy, include the poor

Cape Town, South Africa Reuters President Cyril Ramaphosa pledged on Thursday to revive South Africa’s flagging economy and extend prosperity to the many left out of it, by resuscitating factories and farms, building roads and seizing the opportunities presented by green energy. In his first policy speech to a new parliament since the African National […]
Scammers

Have you noticed how on weekends, and holidays you hardly get any spam emails? I have! PICTURE: Liubomyr Vorona/iStockphoto We know that, many scammers are just everyday people in other countries, employed nine-to-five by nefarious employers to bulk email, call and scam people to bring home their bacon. It’s a little unnerving how banal such […]
South Africa: Thirty years after end of apartheid, inequality persists

KOPANO GUMBI and OLIVIA KUMWENDA-MTAMBO, of Reuters, look at what the data shows…
Thousands of Colombians protest Petro’s economic, social reforms

Bogota, Colombia Reuters Tens of thousands of Colombians marched on Sunday to reject economic and social reforms being proposed by the leftist government of President Gustavo Petro, the latest in a series of demonstrations against Petro’s policies. The reforms, which Petro says will fight deep inequality but which opponents say will damage the country’s already-struggling […]
India’s richest one per cent has highest concentration of wealth in decades, study shows

New Delhi, India Reuters The wealth concentrated in the richest one per cent of India’s population is at its highest in six decades and the percentage share of income exceeds that of countries including Brazil and the United States, research group the World Inequality Lab found. Since India, which won its independence in 1947 from […]
Essay: Deep-seated inequality is fuelling an escalation of violence across Latin America

ANDREW NICKSON, of the University of Birmingham looks at the causes for the rising violence in an article first published on The Conversation… For most of the 20th century, Latin America was portrayed as one of the world’s most peaceful regions. Coups and repressive military regimes had long been commonplace but widespread civil disorder and […]
Essay: Six ways inequality holds back climate action

Against the backdrop of the World Economic Forum taking place this week, EMMA GARNETT and CHARLOTTE A KUKOWSKI explain, in an article first published on The Conversation, why inequality remains one of the biggest barriers to the net zero transition…
Look beyond profit to heal “lacerated world”, Pope tells Davos leaders

Vatican City Reuters Pope Francis on Wednesday urged political, economic and business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos to look beyond profit and try to heal an “increasingly lacerated” world with moral and ethical decisions. Pope Francis leads the Angelus prayer at the Vatican, on 7th January, 2024. PICTURE: Vatican Media/Handout via Reuters […]