Faster Fashion Cycle Accelerates
Sustainable fashion initiatives face huge obstacles in displacing fast fashion’s popularity, despite fair labor and environmental concerns.
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Another Somalian Famine
On lack of intervention and even much reporting on famine in Somalia, the worst in the 21st century.
Read more...Understanding the Long-Run Effects of Africa’s Slave Trades
Looking at some of the lasting damage done by the slave trade, such as higher incidence of HIV.
Read more...Fast Fashion: A Few Thoughts Sparked by Recent News
Fast fashion is flourishing in the US, despite problematic labor practices and the considerable environmental costs it generates.
Read more...A Tale of Two Countries: Nigeria and the U.S.
How the US and Nigeria wound up with increasingly similar systems, such as centralized, presidential-focused politics.
Read more...Panama Papers: The Role of Western Secrecy Jurisdictions in Looting Africa
Africa, despite having many of the poorest countries in the world, is nevertheless a capital exporter due to bank secrecy and tax gaming.
Read more...Nick Turse: The Killing Fields of South Sudan
An in-depth portrait of one of the worst ravages of war: killing fields.
Read more...Income Inequality in a Globalising World
Absolute inequality around the world has increased, challenging the purported benefit of globalization.
Read more...Oil Booms Leave the Poor in the Dark
One of the biggest challenges in fighting poverty is to know where it is. This column describes a new way to measure poverty by using satellites to count people who live in darkness at night. This shows that the economic benefits of oil booms don’t trickle down to the very poor.
Read more...Why Is the Pentagon Hiding the Number of Troops in Iraq and Syria?
The Pentagon refuses to disclose how many U.S. troops — and contractors — are currently deployed to Iraq and Syria. CIvilian deaths, too
Read more...New Zealand Offshore Company Agents: Mossack Fonseca is Far From Alone
The global footprint of agents selling NZ companies and trusts
Read more...Dodgy New Zealand Companies: Mapping Their Global Footprint Since 2009
New Zealand’s scam companies: a map of their global footprint
Read more...New Zealand: Kea Street Cred and US$1Bn Promise Lures Kiwi to Front Very Peculiar Financial Service Providers
Another duo of wildly offbeat New Zealand Financial Services Providers
Read more...#panamapapers – Why Critic Craig Murray Needs the Scorecard Before He Can Name The Players
Craig Murray keeps jumping the gun with his panamapapers pieces
Read more...New Paper Makes Powerful Case Against Tax Treaties
Why tax treaties are a gimmie to multinationals and a poisoned chalice for developing countries.
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