Students at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Joblessness has hit even those with degrees.
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Promoting entrepreneurship will help reduce unemployment in South Africa. But the government has to step up its game.
Jeff Bezos paid no taxes in some years despite gaining billions in wealth.
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A new report found that America’s top billionaires paid very little income tax despite tremendous gains in their wealth.
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Some national economies will return to their pre-COVID levels this year, others not until 2025. What does this imbalance mean for the global economy?
Ireland has third-worst wage rate in EU.
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Ireland is looking at imposing a living wage on all employers.
A woman sweeps outside her shack in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. South Africa is among the most unequal societies in the world.
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Rethinking capitalism requires that the primary focus should be on the distribution of economic power as the potential leading causal factor driving inequality.
Identity documents are important for access to many public and social services in Indonesia.
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Poverty, vulnerability and discrimination are barriers many Indonesians face in acquiring identity documents.
A child plays in a street in the port village of Paquitequete near Pemba, northern Mozambique. The region suffered decades of neglect, and major gas projects have failed to deliver local benefits.
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The development strategy based on foreign investment in natural resources projects has not delivered economic growth or security. What’s needed is an inclusive vision based on local realities.
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The task now is to turn the reactive response to the health and economic emergencies into a proactive set of policies and actions.
In Morocco, most women’s lives, choices and mobility are controlled by men.
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In Morocco, the COVID-19 pandemic has burdened women with more housework and duties at home, and violence against them has risen.
A volunteer delivers food parcels in Masiphumelele informal settlement in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Early in the pandemic, countries had to address several questions as the virus spread and lockdowns became inevitable.
Workers at a textile factory in Cape Town, South Africa. Differences between wages and executive pay isn’t currently in the public domain.
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Companies being required to go public with information about executive and workers pay packets is increasingly becoming the norm.
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Gender pay gap reporting was made mandatory in 2016. Could the same be done for tracking salaries by race?
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When policymakers reduce electricity scarcity to a few factors like theft and vandalism, to be solved with technology and stiff penalties, they miss other factors that contribute to electricity theft.
Rob Davies, former South African trade and industry minister.
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Rob Davies is critical of economic policy, starting with the Mandela administration. He reserves particular criticism for its macroeconomic policy framework introduced in 1996.
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More needs to be done to support South Africa's township communities.
A lead pipe (left) seen through a hole in the kitchen ceiling in the home of Desmond Odom, in Newark, New Jersey.
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President Biden has proposed spending $45 billion to replace every lead water pipe and service line in the nation. A public health expert explains why he sees this as a worthwhile investment.
Students take their test outside due to their overcrowded class room in Kisumu, Kenya.
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Far too often it is still an education for some and not for everybody.
President Biden said he wants to raise capital gains taxes to help pay for his ambitious proposals.
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President Biden wants to raise the capital gains tax that wealthy people pay and use the extra revenue to fund new social spending on children and education.
Keeping kids above the poverty line contributes to their stability in adulthood.
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Many studies conducted in recent years tie lower poverty rates for children to better health and higher pay when they grow up.
South Africa’s Constitutional Court is considered the bedrock of the country’s democratic order. Here it is in session in 2019.
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The growing defence of South Africa’s beleaguered constitutional democracy is bolstered by African thinker Mahmood Mamdani’s latest book.