We’re living in dysfunctional times. Princeton economist Atif Mian says the ‘debt supercycle’ is at the root of it all — and it’s only going to get worse. BY ISMAT MANGLAJUNE 25, 2024 Princeton economist Atif Mian says our addiction to debt imperils the world economy. A YSHA KHAN Ten […]
NIDHAL GUESSOUM December 21, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/47y55 In October 2020, with the pandemic still to reach its peak and vaccines not yet available, the writer and CNN host Fareed […]
RANVIR S. NAYAR December 10, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/983wy The World Inequality Report 2022 released earlier this week by the World Inequality Lab paints a dismal picture, with inequality continuing […]
CORNELIA MEYER October 15, 2020 Short Url https://arab.news/6etpv People queue to collect food distribution during the COVID-19 outbreak, Manhattan, New York City, U.S., May 9, 2020. (Reuters) The world has […]
Masuma Rahim A Kenyan teacher who donates 80% of his income is amazingly generous. But such acts alone cannot tackle inequality Tue 26 Mar 2019 Peter Tabichi (right) with […]
Jul 08,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Helle Thorning-Schmidt Almost a decade ago, facing a near-collapse of the financial system and the risk of a depression, the world needed a new form of leadership to navigate and restore confidence in the global economy. That is why, in 2009, at his first global […]
Noah Kirsch , FORBES STAFF I cover the world’s most successful people. In between board meetings at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—the world’s largest private charity—Bill Gatesworks to sate […]
May 16,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Kaushik Basu Global inequality today is at a level last seen in the late nineteenth century — and it is continuing to rise. With it has come a surging sense of disenfranchisement that has fuelled alienation and anger, and even bred nationalism and xenophobia. As […]
YASMIN ALIBHAI BROWN THE INDEPENDENT Sunday 18 January 2015 In the Eighties I wrote articles on ghastly yuppies, effervescing with expensive champagne and inflated egos. One of them poured his bubbly over my blouse when I tried to interview him. How they all laughed. In the Nineties I met incredibly […]
theguardian: by Angela Manoghan — The research by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman [pdf] illustrates the evolution of wealth inequality over the last century. The chart shows how the top 0.1% of families now own roughly the same share of wealth as the bottom 90%. The picture actually improved in the […]
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star, Beirut, Lebanon. What is it that drives ordinary Arab men and women to do extraordinary things, such as demonstrate against their government for 12 months non-stop, at the risk of being killed every day? I have heard many explanations for the ongoing Arab […]