UN | Development financing trends are going in the wrong direction, the United Nations warned today. In many areas, progress has not only stalled but is reversing due to weakened global collaboration, rising trade barriers, increased geopolitical tensions, repeated climate-related shocks, and an ala...
Jacobin | Poor health outcomes are often treated as an unfortunate by-product of individual bad decisions. This moralizing approach ignores the role poverty plays in determining who gets ill and who can afford to get well.
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LSE Inequalities | Inequality has a profoundly negative effect on health and wellbeing, write Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. Not because it suddenly kills, but because it slowly reshapes how people live, relate, cope, and age. Rather than behaving like a toxin that produces a sudden spike in mo...
The Guardian | Researchers say findings show inequality creates toxic environment and reducing it is ‘a public health imperative’
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We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust.