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Haïti, un chaos qui ne vient pas de nulle part
Frédéric Thomas, Renaud Duterme 12/11/25
C’est un pays qui fait rarement la Une de l’actualité. Pourtant, Haïti connaît depuis plusieurs années une descente aux enfers (instabilité politique, insécurité alimentaire, extrême violence, débâcle économique, catastrophes naturelles). Cette situation (...)
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 (...)
La grande hypocrisie « verte » Nord-Sud
Bernard Duterme 24/03/25
L’édito de la dernière parution de la collection Alternatives Sud, Business vert en pays pauvres. Quatre ou cinq brèves assertions pour entamer cet éditorial. Quatre ou cinq truismes certes, mais que l’on se sent l’obligation de rappeler avant (...)
La gran hipocresía “verde” Norte-Sur
Bernard Duterme 24/03/25
El editorial de la última publicación de la colección Alternatives Sud, Business vert en pays pauvres. Cuatro o cinco afirmaciones breves para comenzar este editorial. Cuatro o cinco truismos que no están en duda, pero que nos sentimos obligados a (...)
Tribune - Business vert en pays pauvres
Bernard Duterme 28/02/25
Tribune de Bernard Duterme (CETRI) parue ce 27 février dans La Libre Belgique, à propos du livre collectif à paraître ce 3 mars : Business vert en pays pauvres (Syllepse/CETRI). Quatre brèves assertions pour entamer cette tribune. Quatre truismes (...)
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 (...)
World Inequality Still Rising Despite Some Convergence
Jomo Kwame Sundaram 07/11/24
Despite earlier income convergence among nations, many low-income countries (LICs) and people are falling further behind. Worse, the number of poor and hungry has been increasing again after declining for decades. After the post-Second World (...)
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 (...)