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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

The Guardian - UK

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.

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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

Daily Record

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…

The Conversation

Racial inequality ‘hard-wired into housing system’ as UK rent soars

One in six black and minority ethnic renters has seen an increase in their rent in the past month

The Independent UK

World Mental Health Day: Why inequality and mental health need to be part of the same conversation

World Mental Health Day is making mental health a global priority. Abi Jackson talks to Rethink Mental Illness’ deputy CEO Brian Dow

The Independent UK

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The broken US economy breeds inequality and insecurity. Here’s how to fix it

On one side, oceans of wealth and power. On the other, precarity and powerlessness. But we have the tools for reform

The Guardian - US

The Guardian view on race and poverty: a worsening divide

Editorial: The disproportionate impact of cost of living rises on ethnic minorities, especially women, must be addressed

The Guardian - UK

A cut to benefits would batter millions of households – even Tory MPs can’t stomach it

Liz Truss’s threats of a real-terms cut would ramp up inequality and hamper her beloved growth, says Lalitha Try, a researcher at the Resolution Foundation

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Truss, Kwarteng and inequality: out of touch, out of time

Editorial: Michael Gove is doing the country a service by resisting a government with no mandate

The Guardian - UK

Three physicists win the Nobel for work on quantum entanglement

The Nobel Prize in Physics went to Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger for their experiments on photon entanglement.

Inverse

White House hunger summit failed to expand ‘right to food’, UN expert says

UN special rapporteur praises step in right direction but says ‘structural inequality is underlying cause of hunger’

The Guardian - US

Hurricane Ian could worsen inequality

Poor and non-white communities are often hardest hit — but FEMA disproportionately aids whiter, wealthier areas

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The Conversation

How Hurricane Ian and other disasters are becoming a growing source of inequality – even among the middle class

Friendswood, Texas, is the type of community that one might think of as a “best case scenario” when it comes to recovering from a disaster.

The Guardian - UK

Tories have presided over shameful health inequality

Letters: Dr Eddie Morris on why the white paper on health disparities is vital and should not be scrapped. Plus letters from John Boswell and Emily Robinson

The Hindu

Poverty, unemployment are demons in today’s world: RSS

India should address economic inequality, says general secretary Hosabale

The Conversation

The term 'achievement gap' fosters a negative view of Black students

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ABC News

What does government support for fossil fuel subsidies cost our economy and environment?

Experts say government subsidies for private companies sustain the environmentally unsustainable, and lead to inequality and poor business practices.

The Conversation

Mental health in the UK is about to get worse – and inequality will have a lot to do with it

The UK government’s recent mini-budget has come in for a lot of criticism. Its effect on stock markets, pensions and the value of the pound have barely been out of the news. As a clinical psychologist, one issue I find alarming, but has barely been discussed, is the possible effect…

Bangkok Post

The case for a common Asean currency

It's fair to say there exists a level of social and economic inequality within Asean.

Evening Standard

What is the IMF and what did it say about the Government’s fiscal plans?

The IMF claims the £45 billion-worth of tax cuts will likely increase inequality in the UK

The Independent UK

IMF urges UK to "re-evaluate" tax cuts on inflation concerns

The International Monetary Fund has urged the U.K. government to “reevaluate” a package of unfunded tax cuts that it says may fuel inflation and are likely to increase economic inequality

The Independent UK

IMF urges Kwarteng and Truss to rethink tax cuts in rare intervention

Mini-Budget measures will likely increase inequality, says global lender

Evening Standard

IMF criticises Government tax plan saying it will ‘likely increase inequality’

There is international pressure on Kwasi Kwarteng to change course after his mini-budget spooked the markets with its package of tax cuts and increased borrowing.

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