Human Interest

President Mugabe's economic mismanagement of Zimbabwe has brought the country poverty and malnutrition. After 36 years in charge, he's looking to extend hi

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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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Labor activists in Cambodia and India explain how much life really sucks in H&M factories.

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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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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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Economist Dilip Ratha was the first to analyse the global significance of remittances — money sent from foreign workers to their families back home. He i

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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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