Posts Tagged ‘poorer’

Why Poorer Nations Aren’t Falling for Green-Washed Imperialism

Fighting global warming is not just about providing a path to net-zero carbon emissions for all countries. It is also about figuring out how best to meet the energy needs of people across the world while working toward net-zero emissions. If fossil fuels have to be given up, which has now become an urgent need […]

Poorer Countries Are Still Being Left Behind On COVID-19 Vaccinations

As the U.S. and dozens of other wealthy nations began vaccinating their citizens against the coronavirus, developing countries where billions of people live had yet to even receive vaccine supplies. And although an international plan to send vaccines to more than 100 nations is kicking into high gear later this month, it will take years […]

Covid-19 Makes the Rich Richer, the Poor Poorer: That is Capitalism

“When the laws undertake to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of the society have a right to complain of the injustice to their government.” — President Andrew Jackson P B Shelly invoked an injunction from the Bible to explain the effect of capitalism in widening the gap between haves […]

Rapid COVID-19 tests that give results ‘in minutes’ to be rolled out in poorer countries

The World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday that it has agreed to a plan to roll out 120 million rapid-diagnostic tests for the coronavirus. Along with its leading partners, WHO aims to help lower- and middle-income countries make up ground in a testing gap with richer countries. The antigen-based rapid diagnostic tests, for which WHO […]

Derailing Chilcot: The red herring of post-war planning in Iraq. Blair’s punishment to sit on naughty step for one hour

Derailing Chilcot: The red herring of post-war planning in Iraq When it comes to the Iraq invasion, the British establishment have conveniently asked the wrong questions Photo: Tony Blair – World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 2009 by World Economic Forum licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 “If they can get you asking the wrong questions,” the American novelist […]

Every Age Group Is Getting Poorer In America, Except For One

Doug Short, Advisor Perspectives Sept 23, 2011 Last week I updated my commentary on household income distribution to include the Census Bureau’s release of the 2010 data. My focus was on arithmetic mean (average) household incomes by quintile (and the top 5%) over the 43-year history of this data series. The analysis offered some fascinating insights […]

Americans are poorer than ever

More Americans were living in poverty last year than in the entire 52 years that the US Census Bureau has been tracking the figure, new reports say. Demographers raking over the 2010 census info have revealed that 56.2 million people in the US were living below the poverty line last year, which puts the percentage […]

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