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North Worsens Tropical Catastrophe
Jomo Kwame Sundaram 09/09/25
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have risen over the last two centuries, with current and accumulated emissions per capita from rich nations greatly exceeding those of the Global South. Tropical vulnerability The last six millennia have seen (...)
Inequality Worsens Planetary Heating
Jomo Kwame Sundaram 14/08/25
The accumulation of still growing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in an increasingly unequal world is accelerating planetary heating. It is also worsening disparities, especially between the rich and others, both nationally and internationally. (...)
Obsolètes, les réformes agraires ?
Laurent Delcourt 03/06/25
Longtemps centrales dans les stratégies de développement, les réformes agraires redistributives ont peu à peu disparu des agendas, remplacées par des approches de l’enjeu foncier dépolitisées et centrées sur la formalisation des droits et le marché. Face (...)
¿Obsoletas, las reformas agrarias ?
Laurent Delcourt 03/06/25
Durante años, las reformas agrarias de carácter redistributivo ocuparon un lugar central en las estrategias de desarrollo. Sin embargo, con el tiempo fueron apartadas de la agenda, sustituidas por enfoques despolitizados que se enfocan en la (...)
Ilegalizar la pobreza : una agenda para la justicia social
Francine Mestrum 23/04/25
El ultimo libro de Francine Mestrum. Este no es un libro sobre los pobres sino sobre la pobreza y el uso y abuso político del tema. Al mismo tiempo, la pobreza es un tema de consenso. Nadie puede estar en contra de ayudar a los pobres, a pesar (...)
Make Poverty Illegal : an Agenda for Social Justice
Francine Mestrum 23/04/25
Latest publication by Francine Mestrum. The main message of this book is a statement that we are currently not fighting against poverty, on the contrary, we are producing poverty day after day. We live in a poverty factory. The second message (...)
Malnutrition Not Due to Cash Poverty Alone
Jomo Kwame Sundaram 27/03/25
The World Bank set its US ‘dollar-a-day’ poverty line using its 1990 data. Despite many doubts and criticisms, its poverty numbers fell until the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020. Cash measures The Bank claimed credit for reducing poverty in the (...)
New Approaches Urgently Needed to Tackle Resurgent Social Crises
Jomo Kwame Sundaram 05/12/24
Despite uneven economic recovery since the pandemic, poverty, inequality, and food insecurity continue to worsen, including in the Asia-Pacific, which used to fare better than the rest of the South. Despite uneven economic recovery since the (...)
Les coûts cachés de la mode « fossile »
Aurélie Leroy 29/11/24
À Busan, en Corée du Sud, 175 pays négocient un traité international pour lutter contre la pollution plastique. L’urgence est claire : endiguer une production exponentielle directement liée aux combustibles fossiles, notamment dans l’industrie (...)
Global Poverty Grows as Super-Rich Get Richer Faster
Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Siti Maisarah Zainurin 29/08/24
Oxfam expects the world’s first trillionaire within a decade and poverty to end in 229 years ! The wealth of the world’s five richest men has more than doubled from 2020, as 4.8 billion people became poorer. Oxfam expects the world’s first (...)