Politics / Poverty

Where the debt-ridden and desperate come to heal from kidney donation surgery, by Subi Shah.

Inflation, poverty and hunger, debt, profit and inequality.

Initiatives, action, and further reading on the cost of living.

As the cost of living crisis becomes entrenched, Nick Dowson examines the scene of the crime, tracks down the culprits and proposes a route to resolution.

Report on global protests by Amy Hall.

Leonardo Sakamoto on hideous wealth – and poverty. 

What if we all got paid the same? Vanessa Baird on a simple but bold measure to reverse roaring income inequality.

Coronavirus has closed factories and workshops across the world, spelling disaster for millions of people who subsist on poverty wages. Tansy Hoskins reimagines a garment industry where workers are better protected.

Lorraine Mallinder gets inside the proto-petro-state of Iraqi Kurdistan.

Skipping meals to talk to the media, aiming to get arrested – and still making it to your hockey game. These are just some of the tasks found on the to-do lists of campaigners in Canada who are putting everything on the line to fight for a liveable, just future. Lucy EJ Woods went to meet them.

Images from the migrant route through Mexico, where desperate people risk a journey fraught with danger to try to make it to the US. Text and photos: Pablo Allison.

An epic struggle has been playing out between islanders defending their land, rivers and livelihoods and the Malaysian government’s vision of ‘development’. Veronique Mistiaen spoke with Peter Kallang, the campaigner in the thick of it.

For more than half a century, economists and policymakers have focused fanatically on growth as the only feasible way to end global poverty and improve people’s lives. But in an era of planet-wide ecological breakdown, that comfortable conventional wisdom is crashing to an end. Jason Hickel lays it on the line.

Dinyar Godrej ponders what a global minimum wage might look like.

The globalized garment industry is as ruthless as they come, creaming off huge profits while paying workers a pittance. Trade unionist Anannya Bhattacharjee from the Asia Floor Wage Alliance is pressing the case for a living wage. She explains to Dinyar Godrej that the changes needed are surprisingly small – yet vehemently resisted.

Vanessa Martina Silva considers the track record of Brazil’s flagship Bolsa Família, the world’s largest conditional cash transfer scheme.

Tax havens in the Global North enable the systematic looting of the Global South. John Christensen explains how their activities impoverish the world.

Poverty between – and within – nations doesn’t just exist. It is created and needs constant maintenance. Warning: extremely violent content. Words: Dinyar Godrej.

Why is hunger growing in a country known as an agricultural powerhouse? Amy Booth reports from Buenos Aires.

Links for campaigning and more reading on poverty.