South Africamost industrialized country Africa, will hold general elections this Wednesday involved in an electoral debate in which citizen concerns such as inequality, criminality, corruption or the Palestinian-Israeli conflict can condition the result. The ruling African National Congress (ANC) of the country’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has been in power since Nelson Mandela ended the racist […]
Tag: Inequality
Inequality is at the root of violence in Latin America and its solution
The inequality Social change and an economic model based on the exploitation of people and the environment are at the root of the violence that plagues Latin America and, therefore, must also be the starting point in the fight against it, according to experts gathered this Tuesday at Casa de América in Madrid. Police strategies […]
Latinos in the US continue to face stereotypes and employment barriers
The population Hispanic of USA continues to fight in his workplace against “complex and contradictory stereotypes” and feels underrepresented and “alarming” salary inequalities, especially among women, according to a study published this Thursday. The report ‘More than a monolith: the advancement of Hispanic and Latino talent’prepared by the Coqual think tank, found that this minority […]
Unemployment and job insecurity have a woman’s face
Economic data are one of the many bridges to understand gender gaps in Peru. From the serve, not only is there a lower participation of the women in the employed population, but they are also the most immersed in underemployment. 55% of the female workforce does not work a full weekly working day and/or earns […]
Climate crisis and inequality, keys to the IDB Assembly in the Dominican Republic
He Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) starts this Wednesday in Punta Cana its annual meeting in which the financial authorities of the member countries of the organization will analyze key issues for the region such as climate crisis wave inequality. The event will last six days and will bring together economic and financial leaders and representatives […]
An international network plans to use AI against global inequality
Develop artificial intelligences that take into account emerging countries and reduce global injustice, is the objective of the International Computing and AI Network (ICAIN), an initiative presented today at the Davos Forum which already has its first pilot project underway. The Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the prestigious polytechnic schools of Lausanne and Zurich, […]
There would be more poor people in 2023 and 2024 due to low GDP growth
After the national economy registered a fall of 0.63% in August, and thus accumulated a decline of 0.58% in the first eight months of the year, everything indicates that the macroeconomic projections for the end of 2023 would have a new downward bias, where the most optimistic forecast is currently that of the Ministry of […]
ECLAC: Latin America will grow 0.8% with impacts on informal employment
Latin America will grow in the decade from 2014-2024 by 0.8% on average, less than the lost decade of the eighties due to the debt crisis (2%), whose cumulative effects will accentuate the “vicious circles” of the economy with a possible increase in informal workpoverty and inequality, says the executive secretary of the ECLACJosé Manuel […]
OECD: Mexico maintains one of the highest levels of poverty and inequality
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) warned this Tuesday that Mexico maintains one of the highest levels of poverty and inequality in the group, made up of 38 countries, including Chili, Colombia and Costa Rica. In its annual report on structural reforms, the OECD reported that Mexico has a poverty gap index of […]
UN chief: Libya is a reflection of the injustice in the world
The catastrophe of the Libyan city of Dernawhere thousands of people have died from floods, is a “sad snapshot” of a world stalked by injustice, warned this Tuesday the secretary general of the UNAntonio Guterres, at the opening of the 78th General Assembly in New York. “Derna is a sad snapshot of the state of […]