Over the past 20 years the number of international branch campuses (IBCs) have grown like “mushrooms in the rain”. Will their entry be beneficial to Indonesians?
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Foreign universities can provide quality education while also opening avenues for global research. However, initiatives must be put in place to make sure they are accessible to all Indonesians.
Building an extra 50,000 homes each year for a decade could make prices and rents 20% cheaper.
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The key to arresting galloping inequality in Australia comes down to housing policy and reversing spiralling housing costs.
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Germany’s rising inequality shows what happens when consumers and companies don’t widely embrace innovation.
Unmarried parents spend, on average, several hundred dollars less on each child annually.
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Single parents and unmarried parents who live together spend less on their children than married parents.
A match between ASNL Nancy and ESAP Metz in 2017.
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Women’s football has made great strides, but when it comes it comes to media coverage, governance or funding, female athletes still suffer greatly from gender bias.
Every reference but one to inequality nearly doubling was removed from an Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report.
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The Institute for Health and Welfare issued an “errata” to correct statements about inequality that were perfectly correct.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, left, with his Nigerian counterpart Muhammadu Buhari in late August in Japan.
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South Africa and Nigeria need to lead policy debates on long term measures to address migration in Africa.
The statistics show the wealthiest households are getting a growing share of household wealth. The Productivity Commission is trying to tell us they are not.
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Freedom of Information documents show the Bureau of Statistics spent a good deal of effort toning down news of rising inequality. The Productivity Commission seems to have been at it too.
Parkinson said Australia would need to use all its advantages, like its multicultural and merit-based society, to sustain its prosperity and security in the future.
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In his valedictory address, outgoing secretary of the Prime Minister’s Department Martin Parkinson, condemned “entrenched disadvantage” in Australia.
French president, Emmanuel Macron has set his sights on tackling inequality.
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A fundamental driver of inequality is the race to the bottom in how governments set their corporate tax rates.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics insists inequality has been stable, but its data suggests something less rosy.
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Better data would tell us more about the ultrawealthy, but they really do seem to be growing more wealthy, more quickly, than the rest of us.
Mozambique uses income as a measure of poverty. On this basis, poverty has declined over the past two decades.
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Income is a useful measure for tracking economic progress over time. But a broader lens is needed to understand the relational and often political ways in which poverty emerges and is reproduced.
The avocado latte is indeed a thing, but young Australians are spending less on luxuries than they used to, while older Australians are spending more.
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A new Grattan Institute study finds that for the first time in a long time, young Australians are no better off than those who came before, and are likely to do worse.
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City rankings have become big business – but this expert thinks it’s best to ignore them.
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Populism is on the rise in countries where inequality has been fairly stable over time, as well as countries where inequality has grown.
Hip implants and other medical devices are not always designed with women in mind.
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How an implant is designed, tested, regulated and discussed with patients tends to disadvantage women. It’s time that changed.
Dalia Yashar, one of the first Saudi female students in training to become commercial pilot, pictured on July 15, 2018. Her future passengers will include solo women travelers, too.
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Saudi women may now travel without a man’s permission, easing one of the most repressive aspects of the country’s ‘guardianship’ system. Women in Saudi Arabia gained the right to drive last year.
Injuries from firearms are a leading cause of death for American children and teens.
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Firearms are the second leading cause of death among US children and adolescents.
Activists rallied in New York City in July 2016 to protest police-involved shootings.
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According to a new study, about 52 of every 100,000 men and boys, and about 3 of every 100,000 women and girls, are killed by police in the US.
South Africa’s labour market is more favourable to men than to women. The 4IR may widen the gap.
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The world of the fourth industrial revolution looks set to be one dominated by forms of knowledge and industries – like science and technology – that have long been dominated by men.