Living in a wealthy country does not guarantee that all children are equally happy, healthy and have the same level of academic and social skills. The latest edition of the UNICEF Innocenti Report Card series explores how economic inequalities impact children’s well-being.
Unequal Chances: Children and economic inequality | Office of Strategy and Evidence Innocenti
The OECD hosted its Future of Development Cooperation conference in Paris last week, bringing together political leaders, senior policymakers, and civil society actors to “chart strategic directions”. This week, the UK and South African governments are hosting their Global Partnerships Conference in London “to build new international coalitions to tackle shared challenges”. Then in June the G7 will attempt to “redefine how international partnerships currently operate” during its annual summit in Évian-les-Bains, France.
Aid is being redefined around self-interest – it doesn’t have to be – Eurodad
Transnational agribusinesses increasingly shape food policies worldwide. Claiming to best address recent food security concerns, they seek to profit more from innovations in food production, processing, and distribution.
Food Systems and Policies Undermining Food Security | Inter Press Service
The Real Cost of Debt is a multimedia storytelling project which focuses on the human impacts of the debt crisis. It uncovers the stories behind the debt data through the words and experiences of people directly affected in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Latin America and the Caribbean.
How can the stock market be rising to record levels while jobs and wages are going nowhere, most Americans are paying higher prices for just about everything, and consumer sentiment is in the dumps?
Over the past decade, the International Labour Organization has helped countries expand social protection through its Global Flagship Programme on Building Social Protection Floors for All.
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“I can’t help but roll my eyes when people bash the rich as a class, blaming them for nearly everything that’s wrong in U.S. society,” IP Editor-in-Chief David Callahan recently wrote in a column, “What ‘Blame the Billionaires’ Misses.” He points to Texas Democrat James Talarico, who recently said that the “only minority destroying this country is the billionaires.”
Chuck Collins on the case for blaming billionaires | Inside Philanthropy
With the rise in oil prices, the profits of extractive companies surge—and a significant share ends up funneled through tax havens. But it’s not too late to tax war profiteers effectively.
There is ample research showing that growth-oriented strategies accompanied by redistribution policies are the most promising path to recovery across the Global South. Rather than imposing cookie-cutter austerity programs, the International Monetary Fund should be following the evidence.
Escaping the IMF Austerity Trap by Kevin P. Gallagher & Njūgūna S. Ndūng’ū – Project Syndicate
Global real worker pay fell 12 percent while real CEO pay surged 54 percent between 2019 and 2025.
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