The unseen 'slow violence' that affects millions

Not all violence is fast. Hidden in plain sight across society, there is a kind of harm that happens too slowly to see, says Richard Fisher.

Lebanon’s Food Insecurity and the Path Toward Agricultural Reform

Without deep legislative and structural reforms, Lebanons agricultural sector could suffer severely, pushing even more people out of work and into poverty.

A Good but Incomplete Start to Debt Relief

After initially responding to the pandemic induced economic crisis with an initiative to postpone developing countries debt payments, the G20 has now come back to the table to offer a more plausible solution. But the new common framework for....

How COVID-19 Will Increase Inequality in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies

Emerging markets and developing economies grew consistently in the two decades before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, allowing for much-needed gains

The Death of Lebanon’s Middle Class

A country with a proud history of trade and commerce is starting to crumble into permanent poverty.

COVID-19: The Capitalist Emperor Has No Clothes

The systemic failure of the capitalist order triggered by the coronavirus has reinforced the growing awareness that extreme wealth inequality...

One in four Iraqi children live in poverty after war with Isis, United Nations says

World leaders can show that we are willing to invest in children that we are willing to invest in rebuilding a stable Iraq

Saleh and the War in Yemen

How to End Hunger

Poverty and hunger are intimately connected, which is why the SDGs target elimination of both