Poverty-stricken drug users in the African country have turned to a cheaper narcotic.
More than half of the children living along and near the “contact line” - where fighting is most intense – are living in poverty.
New evidence suggests high inequality is the cause,not the result,of the low interest rates and high asset prices evident in recent years.
I’ve been having a crisis of confidence in technology. Not because of the harm that people and companies do with technology,but because tech may not matter very much when it comes to solving the world’s problems.
Things are urgent. The coronavirus has reversed decades of progress on global development,putting the world on the brink. To pull back it needs help from those on more solid ground.
The pandemic has caused 3 million deaths,the worst global recession in 90 years,some 120 million people falling back into extreme poverty,and the equivalent of 255 million full-time jobs lost.
The world is rolling out one of the biggest logistical feats in history:vaccinating almost 8 billion people against COVID-19. How is it going? And when will life get back to normal?
Across NSW 1131 people are sleeping rough,a decline of 14 per cent in a year after a push to house people during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
“The shortfall ... will be measured in lives lost,” said a fundraising participant,after a global conference raised half of its aid target.
Having grappled with malaria,HIV and Ebola,the Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist has set his sights on solving another intractable global problem:climate change.
The coronavirus pandemic is swelling the gap between rich and poor in Venezuela,where there may be no starker case of inequality.