The Rich Don’t Pay Their Taxes Yet They Pollute The Most
“The secret IRS files” is a trove of never-seen-before tax records showing how the 0.01%, billionaires like Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, and Mark Zuckerberg, actually get away with paying nearly no taxes. Just obtained from the US tax
Meritocracy: The Tyranny of Merit and the Dilemma of the Disinherited
Should we take meritocracy as a given? Or is there another, better way to organize society? One that would avoid the unfairness of the reliance on the notion of merit? Could the very notion of merit be naive and misplaced,
India’s COVID-19 Crisis Through the Lens of Positive Peace
The country is setting world records as it grapples with a new COVID-19 crisis. India is suffering a swift and extreme surge in daily confirmed COVID-19 cases, setting a new global record for the most infections recorded in a day. This
Tackling Sustainability, Food, and Social Inequalities
A Roadmap From Industrial Legacy Cities For cities with an industrial past that have undergone major transitions away from heavy industry as their economies have shifted, food insecurity has become a dire problem. Prolonged periods of disinvestment common to former blue-collar
The Education Outcomes Fund: An Interview With The CEO Amel Karboul
A good education can be a gateway to a better quality of life for anyone if they are given the opportunity. So why is it that in today's globalized world, many children are still not being offered the same opportunities
How US Sanctions Are Hindering Sustainable Development
U.S unilateral sanctions have been widely criticised for their wide-reaching and detrimental effects on the people that they often claim to benefit – and no time more so than now. Studies show that they have been largely ineffective in achieving
Equality in a post-pandemic era: gender, COVID-19, agriculture and climate change
Combined with climate change, pandemics threaten to slow down or reverse progress in gender equality, further threatening food, income, and nutrition security. COVID-19 is intensifying climate change impacts, adding extra pressure to food systems, livelihoods, and health. Women are especially affected by this added
Shape Your Future with Henry Pao
In November, we got to meet to super vibrant Henry Pao, a 15 years old, secondary student from Pui Ching Middle School. He has participated in Design For Change (DFC) for 3 years and has become a member of the
The Joker Effect: Consequences of Inequality in Society
As time progresses, increasing economic inequality and social immobility are evident in the emergence of poverty as one of the consequences of market liberalization policies and structural adjustment programs that were implemented in the 1990s. This new reality has spurred
Containing Migration is a Mistake
Policies aiming to contain migration by force are a mistake. Here’s why. Emigration is a consequence of political and economic corruption in Latin America. There are structural conditions that expel and oblige citizens, more specifically from Guatemala and other countries in
On Extinction, Food, Climate and Inequality
One million species are threatened with extinction. As this hit the global media headlines reporting on the recent Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, many friends and colleagues sent me shocked messages saying, “Did you see this?” “This is
The Other Migration Crisis
With the ongoing tragedy of the war in Syria, the refugee crisis has quite understandably dominated the conversation about immigration towards Europe. Economic migration has been playing a slightly quieter tune on its second fiddle, but we're going to be