Human Interest

Workers complain of verbal abuse, impossible targets and ‘poverty pay’ so bad they have to live away from their children

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Last year, photographer Matt Black documented the logistics chain of international food aid from a warehouse hub in Dubai to Unity State in South Sudan, where famine has just been declared

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These 25 Companies Are More Powerful Than Many Countries « | Foreign Policy | the Global Magazine of News and Ideas

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Corporations have increased their wealth vis-à-vis countries according to new figures released by Global Justice Now. The campaign group found that 69 of the world’s top economic entitie

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Provided corruption is kept in check and governance improves in the developing world, free trade can benefit everybody, even the world’s poorest people

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They like fast fashion from Zara and H&M. They work out to be seen as much as to exercise. They drink cappuccinos to show how cosmopolitan they are. Some have had their eyelids done to make them look more Western.

North Korea now has a 1 percent. And you’ll find them in “Pyonghattan,” the parallel ­universe inhabited by the rich kids of the Democratic People’s Republic.

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Tax havens serve no useful economic purpose and simply increase inequality, more than 300 leading economists have warned.

In an open letter to world leaders, the economists, including Nobel Prize-winner Angus Deaton and the Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang, say that while tax havens “undoubtedly benefit” rich individuals and multinational corporations, this benefit is at the expense of others.

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City has just scooped CNN poll but official says ‘every street vendor will have to move out’ by end of 2017

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Unctad reports weakest year of GDP growth in 20 years for least developed nations, scuppering hopes that half would escape extreme poverty by 2020

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Speaking in Athens, outgoing US president says backlash against globalisation is giving rise to populist movements

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Workers, including children, labor in harsh and dangerous conditions to meet the world’s soaring demand for cobalt, a mineral essential to powering electric vehicles, laptops, and smartphones, according to an investigation by The Washington Post.

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"We don’t have gold, or petrol or diamonds, the sea is the only resource that our country has," says Mariane Tening Ndiaye, a fish trader and head of the women’s fish smoking association, as she takes me around her domain behind the market. Low-strung platforms covered in flayed fish and blackened ovens stretch away into the distance, the air thick with the stench of rotting fish guts.

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Their support for shell companies, tax havens and impunity facilitate wrongdoing. Delegates at the Anti-Corruption summit should not forget that

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