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Daiana Borges says she gained dignity after she started to sell her products: ‘Before, I could not look people in the eye.’ Photo: Vanessa Martina Silva

Can cash hand-outs cure poverty?

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

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 Illustration: Yeyei Gómez

Who’s the thief?

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

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President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, a critic of Western influence over his country, meets with US President John F Kennedy. There may have been smiles all around but Nkrumah’s cards were marked. Photo: Abbie Rowe/Wikimedia Commons

A brief history of impoverishment

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

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Protesters against Argentina’s hunger crisis gather for a brew, 5 September 2019. They had camped out overnight in front of the Ministry of Social Development in Buenos Aires. Photo: Carol Smiljan/NurPhoto/PA

Argentina’s big squeeze

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

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Action on Poverty

Links for campaigning and more reading on poverty.

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Wary looks: Ntombekhaya Sobuza and little sister Asanele outside their shack constructed from packaging materials from a Volkswagen plant, on the outskirts of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Photo: James Oatway/Panos

Shut out

Poverty is not down to chance or bad choices. It’s hard wired into a deeply unequal economic system. But it doesn’t have to be that way, says Dinyar Godrej.

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 Photo: Gary Duak/Alamy

Spotlight: Lorna Goodison

Rahila Gupta speaks to the first female poet laureate of Jamaica, who explains how poetry is ‘a source of hope and consolation’ in ‘scary times’.

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Mixed Media: Film

Mixed Media: Film

Parasite; No Fathers in Kashmir.

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Mixed Media: Books

Mixed Media: Books

Endland; The Return of the Russian Leviathan; Secrets and Siblings; Corregidora.

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 Illustration: Andy Carter

What if…

A socialist became president of the USA? Richard Swift ponders a pipedream – or a possibility.

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 Illustration: Emma Peer

Agony Uncle

During climate crisis, is flying still acceptable? Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.

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Hall of Infamy: Faure Gnassingbé

Togo’s Faure Gnassingbé keeps up a dubious family tradition.

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Can cash hand-outs cure poverty?

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

Vanessa Martina Silva March, 2020 524 Buy
Who’s the thief?

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

John Christensen March, 2020 524 Buy
A brief history of impoverishment

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

Dinyar Godrej March, 2020 524 Buy
Argentina’s big squeeze

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

Amy Booth March, 2020 524 Buy
Action on Poverty

Links for campaigning and more reading on poverty.

March, 2020 524 Buy
Shut out

Poverty is not down to chance or bad choices. It’s hard wired into a deeply unequal economic system. But it doesn’t have to be that way, says Dinyar Godrej.

Dinyar Godrej March, 2020 524 Buy
Spotlight: Lorna Goodison

Rahila Gupta speaks to the first female poet laureate of Jamaica, who explains how poetry is ‘a source of hope and consolation’ in ‘scary times’.

Rahila Gupta January, 2020 523 Buy
Mixed Media: Music

Amazones Power; #FAKENEWS.

January, 2020 523 Buy
Mixed Media: Film

Parasite; No Fathers in Kashmir.

January, 2020 523 Buy
Mixed Media: Books

Endland; The Return of the Russian Leviathan; Secrets and Siblings; Corregidora.

January, 2020 523 Buy
What if…

A socialist became president of the USA? Richard Swift ponders a pipedream – or a possibility.

Richard Swift January, 2020 523 Buy
Agony Uncle

During climate crisis, is flying still acceptable? Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.

Agony Uncle January, 2020 523 Buy
Thoughts from a Broad

Already dead, by Kate Evans.

Kate Evans January, 2020 523 Buy
Hall of Infamy: Faure Gnassingbé

Togo’s Faure Gnassingbé keeps up a dubious family tradition.

January, 2020 523 Buy
Big Bad World

Cartoon by P J Polyp.

P J Polyp January, 2020 523 Buy