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New mural at Glasgow hospital to highlight black maternity care inequality

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has marked the end of Black History Month by announcing the commissioning of a giant mural at Glasgow Royal Infirmary…

The National (Scotland)

Football must finally be brave enough to confront brutal facts of inequality

A report released on Friday shows clubs are not doing enough and without radical transparency there is no short-term solution

The Guardian - UK

Rents almost double in a decade as ESRI report finds homes with disability excluded from measures of poverty

At the same time, the researchers from the ESRI also say that income inequality is at a record low, meaning that the gap between rich and poor is smaller than ever

Irish Mirror

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Labor's first budget back in government will make income inequality worse, and the stage 3 tax cuts are mainly to blame

Well-off households will get a $5,740 income boost from the Albanese government's biggest budget measures. The poorest will get just $17.

ABC News

The Guardian view on Shell’s profits: enabling climate and inequality emergencies

Editorial: Britain is in trouble if Rishi Sunak says it’s difficult to choose between cutting public services and taxing excessive energy profits

The Guardian - UK

UK music industry to implement anti-racism code of conduct from 2023

A 2021 report found racist abuse and racial inequality across the industry. The UK Music Industry Anti-Racism Code aims to protect and represent Black and ethnically diverse musicians and workers

The Guardian - UK

Australia’s women are no longer seeing their calls for change dismissed as lacking ‘credibility’. Good

Women are central to economic prosperity. This federal budget offers a paradigm shift on gender inequality

The Guardian - AU

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In fairness to New Zealand’s tax and transfer system

Dodgy statistical work to generate headlines supporting higher taxation risks eroding the credibility of Oxfam’s aid work.

Newsroom.co.nz

Glasgow University expert brands children’s health inequalities as ‘national problem’

Dr Anna Pearce said the “widening of inequality” in some areas of children’s health was “worrying”, particularly as the financial situation for many families is expected to worsen.

Glasgow Live

In 1986 Wits University did a survey about its relevance to South Africa: another is needed

As the number of black students increased at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa in the 1980s, township struggles spread onto the campus and management came under increasing grassroots pressure to implement change within the university.

The Conversation

Singapore has among the world's best education systems, so what can Australia learn from it?

Disruptions from COVID-19 and the recent Victorian floods have some experts calling for changes in Australian schools. They say Singapore's flexible education system could be a model to better prepare students to engage in quality learning during times of crisis.

ABC News

China’s decade under Xi Jinping explained in seven charts

Xi has overseen rapid economic growth and rising wealth, while spending big on the military, but inequality has widened has and a demographic crisis looms

The Guardian - AU

Scattered clashes in Chile mark third anniversary of riots

Scattered clashes around Chile between protesters and police on Tuesday marked the third anniversary of widespread protests against inequality in 2019 that left more than 30 people dead.

Reuters

Social grants offer cash, but they aren't a magic bullet response to inequality in the global south

Over the last three decades, there has been a proliferation of social protection programmes across the global south in what some have dubbed a development revolution. International development agencies across the ideological spectrum have embraced social protection as an effective and efficient instrument to reduce poverty and inequality.

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Expert warns Tory austerity drive will return UK to the 1930s

THE UK risks experiencing levels of inequality last seen during the era of the Great Depression if the Tory government continues an austerity drive,…

Al Jazeera

Xi’s economy sees ‘beautiful life’ in China nationalism, control

Chinese President Xi Jinping is presiding over a new era that prioritises political control over economic development.

Evening Standard

London housing should be built with home working in mind, say experts

The “inequality and precarity” of London housing must be “urgently addressed”, research has found

AAP

Teals wake-up call for coalition: Gillard

Julia Gillard says the success of teal independents is a wake-up call for conservatives, and inequality has fuelled ongoing interest in her misogyny speech.

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Governments stoked global inequality since pandemic, study finds

Governments across the world chose policies that deepened economic inequality after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research.

Al Jazeera

South Korea improving on inequality, Hong Kong slipping: Oxfam

UK-based charity says rich and poor countries alike exacerbated rising economic inequality during the pandemic.

The Guardian - UK

Half of poorest countries have cut health spending despite Covid, says Oxfam

Analysis of budgets finds rich nations, including UK, ‘exacerbated explosion of economic inequality’

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss dreams of growth – but even if she pulls it off, it won’t help Britain

Incomes have stalled while the rich get richer. It’s clear the obsession with GDP has to change, says the University of Sheffield’s Michael Jacobs

Radio France Internationale

Africa overcomes the odds to produce its own Covid vaccines

Set on redressing vaccine inequality between rich and poor nations, a South African consortium is taking on pharmaceutical giants in its quest to produce Africa's first homegrown mRNA Covid-19 vaccine and share it with the global south.

Daily Record

Dumfries and Galloway public health chief warns food and fuel poverty could lead to more winter deaths

Valerie White expressed “grave concerns” over growing income inequality fuelling excess mortality in low income households

The Conversation

Ghana and the IMF: debt restructuring must go hand-in-hand with managing finances better

Ghana is struggling with managing its debt, 20-year high inflation, a weak currency, and rising inequality. For example, inflation rose to 33.9% in August 2022 from 9.7% a year earlier, while the cedi has depreciated by 41% year-to-date against the US dollar. These vulnerabilities have been worsened by the aftershocks…

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