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‘It feels like I’m at a firefighters conference and no one’s allowed to speak about water’
This week, Oxfam released their annual wealth check report, Public Good or Private Wealth?, highlighting the concentration of the world’s wealth. As you have probably
How much development is ‘enough’? A final-five finalist in the 2018 Trinity College Dublin and developmenteducation.ie development issues series, Rosie Stack argues it’s time to
Where does one even begin to unpack the new sustainable development goals (SDGs)? When in doubt of what to think I always refer to the
As you log out of ‘Hotmail’ you are redirected to MSN news homepage. I don’t often take much notice of the contents of the page,
A date before August 20th 2014 will mark Earth Overshoot Day, the approximate date on which our resource consumption for this year will exceed the
It always was and still is one of the most useful and telling introductory development education activities as it tells us a lot about people’s
Earlier this month, you may have seen our top 10 good news stories from 2013 we published. What follows covers some aspects of the other
This six-minute video animation is currently doing the rounds online and builds on the pioneering research by economists Michael Norton and Dan Ariely about American
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough
Image: Cayman Islands 2005 084 (2006) by Salvatore.Fren, Flickr. A useful dictum to remember when trying to understand and analyse global inequality is ‘study the
Can you name the wealthiest person in the world, or how about five of the top twenty?
In a world of obscene inequality we like to think things are getting better and, in some areas, things are indeed improving – literacy, girl’s
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