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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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December 8, 2017
China
Podcast: Eradicating Poverty in China—An Impossible Task?
Despite sweeping reforms that have reduced rural poverty by 94 percent since 1980, more than 43 million people in China still live below the poverty line. To combat the widening income gap, the Chine…
April 1, 2024
Brazil
Brazil Should Use G20 Momentum to Join the OECD
Brazil has an opportunity to become a powerful bridge between developed economies and the Global South—the United States should support that ambition.
September 25, 2019
Nigeria
Drivers of Nigerian Kidnapping Morph From Politics to Poverty
The current wave of kidnapping is different from the politically-motivated and usually geographically-banded kidnapping of the past. It is now occurring all over the country. According to Voice of America, this wave of kidnapping is driven by economic hardship.
September 18, 2013
Sub-Saharan Africa
Declining Poverty Rates in South Africa
There is good and bad news about poverty in South Africa: The good news is that poverty is declining, as is the gross discrepancy between white incomes and those of everybody else. The bad news is th…
May 10, 2018
South Africa
"Land Reform" Distracts From Poverty Alleviation in South Africa
Much of the political discourse in South Africa surrounding the subject is largely irrelevant to the kind of land reform demanded by much of the public.
