Politics / Poverty
Articles about Poverty, ordered by date. 
Black Lives - THE FACTS
The impacts of racism can be seen in almost all aspects of everyday life. Black and indigenous people are more likely to be jailed or unemployed – that’s if they make it past childhood.
Grief and guilt post-mudslide
In August hundreds died in a landslide in Sierra Leone. Dumbuya Mustapha reports on the arguing over who was responsible that has followed – and the efforts to hold the government responsible to ensure the tragedy is not repeated.
‘We have a lot to teach the city’
What does ‘the state’ mean to you if you are poor or black or both? Vanessa Baird reports on life down-and-out in post-coup São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro
The Perils of Charity
When rich and poor worlds collide, money is inevitably a problem.
The Disrupted
Jim Thomas on the winners and losers of emerging technologies.
The energy fix
What will it take to get electricity to Africa’s rural poor? Ruth Nyambura explores.
Switched on
Technology, whether low or high, needs to be appropriate and within reach to make a difference.
Facts - Mind the technology gap
Technology can be a big enabler – yet the difference in terms of what’s available to rich and poor is vast.
'Because the river told me'
Peasant farmers resisting the violence of agribusiness. By Nils McCune.
Technology as if people mattered*
The world's poor are still losing out. They need a better deal, argues Dinyar Godrej.
Poverty in the land of black gold
‘Rich Saudi’ are words that seem to belong together. But Paul Aarts and Carolien Roelants highlight another, mainly hidden, reality.
The unwelcome return of development pornography
John Hilary on a degrading spectacle that keeps coming back.
Poverty breeds disease
There are 17 official neglected tropical diseases, so why aren't we doing more to help? asks Cristiana Moisescu.
Is surrogacy a legitimate way out of poverty?
Doctors Nayna Patel and Mohan Rao go head to head.
Commodities and dependency - The Facts
The facts and figures of commodities and our dependence on them.
Housing - THE FACTS
Prices through the roof, a gaping deficit, homelessness, one billion in slums and an urban takeover.
Country Profile - Grenada
Zoe Leigh Smith reports on the tiny Caribbean island's strangling debt burden.
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