We’re constantly told that life is getting better, stronger economy, less poverty, more progress. But when you look closer, ...

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Thabo Mbeki's Africa Day Lecture serves as a crucial reminder of the persistent poverty challenges facing Africa, urging leaders to prioritise the welfare of ordinary citizens in governance.

“Today we are asked to declare war on a domestic enemy which threatens the strength of our nation and the welfare of our people. This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on ...

Why, asks Matthew Desmond — the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Poverty, By America" (Crown) and a professor of sociology at Princeton University — is there so much destitution in America? Desmond — ...

Children are now significantly more likely than two decades ago to be growing up in poverty despite all adults in their ...

More and more of society’s basic functions have come to depend on the accumulation of private wealth, while instilling fear that a good life is otherwise impossible. (iStock/HABesen) One way of ...

There is some disagreement among legal practitioners and scholars about whether corporations have duties under international law. Many argue that only states are bound by international law, and it is ...