Much recent unrest, such as the ‘yellow-vest’ protests in France and the US ‘Abolish the Super-Rich’ campaign, is not against inequality per se, but reflects perceptions of changing inequalities. Most citizens resent inequalities when it is not only (...)
The United States has had the world’s largest trade deficit for almost half a century. In 2017, the US trade deficit in goods and services was $566 billion ; without services, the merchandise account deficit was $810 billion. President Trump (...)
As the ‘masters of the universe’ gather for their annual retreat at Davos, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has just published its Inclusive Development Index (IDI) for the second time. After moderating from the 1920s until the 1970s, inequality (...)
El más pequeño país de América Central, El Salvador, se convirtió en la primera nación del mundo en prohibir, por ley, la minería metálica en todas sus formas, sentando un precedente para que otros pueblos del mundo sigan el ejemplo, aseguran activistas (...)