COVID-19 has increased poverty levels and deepened income, ethnic, gender, geographic inequalities. So what? Will the crisis trigger new, more progressive systems of taxation and redistribution e.g. Universal Basic Income?…

The UN agency estimates it would cost US$ 199 billion per month to provide a time-bound, guaranteed basic income to the 2.7 billion people living below or just above the poverty line in 132 developing countries.

Around 52,000 people in the city of Maricá in suburban Rio de Janeiro will receive a monthly stipend of 130 reais (£24), just under the national poverty line, as part…

Deborah Frieze, co-founder of the Boston Impact Initiative is using a unique model, to help address economic inequality through equitable access to capital and opportunity. The Boston Impact Initiative Fund aims to…

Ikea plans to make furniture from waste straw to offer farmers an alternative to the practice of crop burning, which contributes significantly to air pollution in northern India. The first prototype,…

Singles day, or “Guanggun Jie”, is a Chinese holiday celebrating pride in being single. In the past couple of decades, the November 11th celebration has become China’s biggest shopping day…