‘Ha. But how much do you get paid?’
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Mandatory reporting could help highlight the ethnicity pay gap in much the same way that gender pay gap reporting does.
Over the past five years, one in every four children who died by suicide in Australia was Indigenous.
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Poverty and social exclusion play a big role in Indigenous child suicide. The causes are complex but we know enough to act now to reduce the number of deaths in our communities.
Torrential rains in Malawi have caused dozens of deaths.
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High poverty levels mean people lack access to land and work and they are often driven to settle in zones that are exposed to natural hazards.
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New research reveals how austerity pushed poor families into debt to pay for basic needs like food, rent and hot water.
Washrooms for customers only signs can be seen as an affront to human dignity.
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With so few public washrooms in our cities, vulnerable people are forced to use café and restaurant washrooms. How do mostly minimum wage café and restaurant workers deal with this?
Nigerians celebrate the announcement of Muhammadu Buhari’s victory. But can he deliver jobs this time round?
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Nigeria’s high unemployment rate has created a bloated and unproductive informal sector.
South Africa has one of the worst rates of youth unemployment in the world.
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Guaranteeing unemployed South Africans a job at the minimum wage would have a range of positive outcomes for the economy.
Mali one of the world’s poorest countries would take about 31 years to eradicate poverty.
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Countries with effective governments have reduced income poverty by almost twice the speed.
Nicolás Mauro supporters beneath a Hugo Chávez mural.
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Assertive politics is not enough.
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Why altruism is in shorter supply than the industry wants you to believe
Underwater world of Lake Malawi.
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Lake Malawi is considered a biodiversity treasure because almost all its species occurs nowhere else on the planet.
Kenya poverty.
Millions of people in Kenya still face poverty. But there's hope.
Former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is eminently qualified to lead the World Bank.
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The World Bank needs to change as part of rethinking the current world order, and giving rising powers and developing countries a meaningful voice.
Soweto in South Africa. Apartheid’s spacial planning still affects people’s lives.
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The high costs of finding work make it difficult for young South Africans to get jobs.
People living in run-down, inner city apartments, like these in Cairo, are at risk of heat-stress health problems.
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The number of people dying due to climate-led changes in the environment are increasing and the poorest populations remain the hardest hit.
A hawker sells clocks on a roadside in Nigeria’s oil rich Bayelsa state.
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Most of the things Nigerians complained about in 2015 are still unresolved – unemployment, poverty and economic disempowerment.
South Africa’s Finance Minister Tito Mboweni (centre) arrives to deliver the mid-term budget statement to Parliament.
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South Africa needs to urgently step up its efforts to drive economic growth by harnassing the power of the state, as well as the markets.
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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The Zimbabwean government’s brutal response to protests has dashed hopes for democracy under President Mnangagwa.
African National Congress supporters during the recent ANC Election manifesto launch in Durban.
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A great deal of analysis on South Africa and the ruling ANC seems to be based on wishful thinking, not concrete reality.
Eventide: A Scene in the Westminster Union from 1878.
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The desire to treat all those in poverty via one policy stems from the same impulses that led to reform of poor laws in the 19th century.