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 Wary looks: Ntombekhaya Sobuza and little sister Asanele outside their shack constructed from packaging materials from a Volkswagen plant, on the outskirts of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. JAMES OATWAY/PANOS

Poverty: shut out

Poverty is not down to chance or bad choices. It’s hard wired into a deeply unequal economic system. But it doesn’t have to be that way, says Dinyar Godrej.

Latest issue: April 2020

The fight for clean air

Illustration by Pete Reynolds

In an era of planet-wide ecological breakdown, the conventional wisdom of the growth model is crashing to an end. Jason Hickel lays it on the line

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The globalized garment industry is as ruthless as they come, creaming off huge profits while paying workers a pittance. Trade unionist Anannya Bhattacharjee speaks to Dinyar Godrej about the surprisingly small – yet vehemently resisted – changes needed for a living wage. 

Offshore secrecy is a long-established phenomenon; bankers in Geneva and Zurich were catering to wealthy French and German elites long before the creation of the Swiss federal state in 1848. Delaware started to function as a tax haven in the late 19th century.

Tax havens in the Global North enable the systematic looting of the Global South. John Christensen explains how their activities impoverish the world.

Healthcare workers in Kerala are pictured wearing personal protective equipment. Credit: Javed Anees/Wikicommons

Healthworker Coronavirus Activist Group issue an urgent call for personal protective equipment – and for the resignation of UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock.

A family uses tarps taken from a refugee camp to get shelter from the sun, with bricks for rebuilding their homes all around them in the PK5 neighborhood of Bangui, Central African Republic, a nation with just three ventilators. Feb. 2017. (Z. Baddorf/VOA)

Competition and chauvinism kills. We must save lives with international action and solidarity, urges Vanessa Baird

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