Tag: Poverty
Madagascar: a World Bank forum on the roots of poverty
Representatives of the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a branch of the World Bank whose goal is to promote economic development, have just published a column entitled…
Why it is better to worry about poverty than inequality, by Rainer Zitelmann
The two American computer programmers Brian Acton and Jan Koum invented WhatsApp and sold it to Facebook for $19 billion in 2014. Two billion people around the world now use…
the plan to deport thousands of foreigners worries the medical profession
The vagueness persists in Mayotte around the holding of a possible vast operation of expulsions of foreigners without papers, baptized “Wuambushu”, which could mobilize nearly a thousand gendarmes and police…
The Ramadan Tables are back, after a 3-year hiatus linked to the health crisis
/ Podcasts / Report France For the first time since 2019, the marquee of Secours Islamique France reappeared in the landscape of the Porte de Paris in Saint-Denis for the…
Protestant churches will help with the fight against poverty
The Food Bank saw the demand for help rise by 36 percent last year, according to Kerk in Actie. Churches and private individuals will therefore provide food packages and supply…
Why capitalism is the answer to poverty and starvation, by Rainer Zitelmann
Before the emergence of capitalism, the majority of the world’s population was mired in extreme poverty. In 1820, approximately 90% of the world’s population lived in absolute poverty. Today, less…
Chaotic night, unsanitary conditions, dashed hopes… The daily life of a homeless family in Paris
/ Podcasts / Report France The latest figures from the night of solidarity are edifying. In Paris, more than 3,000 people were without accommodation the night of January 26 to…
Food insecurity: “people come more often to food distributions, once or twice a week”
According to a study published this Monday, February 27, almost two and a half million French people receive food aid, that’s three times more than ten years ago. Food has…
The number of people benefiting from food aid has tripled in France
Some 2.4 million French people depend on food aid. This is the result of a study published by the Food Bank on Monday, February 27, a figure that has tripled…
Sharing the mountain – So far so close
Since mountaineering or winter sports such as skiing have developed in the Alps and elsewhere, it is clear that the mountains have become the terrain of deep inequalities. An area…