poverty

Windfall Tax on Covid Profits Could Ease ‘Catastrophic’ Food Crisis, Oxfam Says

• June 28, 2022

Food, fossil fuel and pharmaceutical companies that have enjoyed bumper profits in the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath should be hit with a swingeing windfall tax on their excess income, the global head of Oxfam has said. A windfall tax of 90 percent on the excess profits globally would yield about $490 billion that …

Climate Change, Health and Population, Poverty

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TAKE A LOOK

Data Miners See Poverty Gradations; and More Cases of Harassment at the UN

Barbara Crossette

• April 11, 2018

International organizations, governments and a vast army of nongovernmental organizations justifiably welcome the sharp reductions that have been achieved in global poverty in recent decades. Data researchers show, however, that when it comes to defining who are the poorest, poverty is not a monolithic state. Two analysts from the online site Our World in …

Gender Violence, Poverty, Take a Look

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WORLDVIEWS

Least-Developed Countries, a Status That Many Nations Can’t Leave Behind

Bill Buchanan

• January 1, 2018

Since 1971, the United Nations has recognized least-developed countries as those deemed highly disadvantaged in their development strides because of structural, historical and geographical reasons. The aim has been, and still is, to support these countries to graduate to higher levels of self-sufficiency and economic independence, not in the sense for a privileged minority …

Africa, Asia, Development, Poverty, WORLDVIEWS

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Freed From Extreme Poverty, but Left Out of the Middle Class

Barbara Crossette

• August 3, 2015

When the final assessment of what the Millennium Development Goals achieved was released on July 6, the United Nations said confidently that more than 1 billion people had been lifted from poverty since 1990, the baseline year for setting the goals, which were then monitored from 2000 to 2015. But where did these poor …