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RAMZY BAROUD sees Gaza abandoned while the genocide continues
India’s poor in the doldrums
The opening of the economy to multinationals has meant higher growth but a loss of state control and a shocking increase in rural poverty, writes Colin Todhunter
ANDREW MURRAY offers some troubling thoughts on pressing political issues
Tensions have once again escalated between Egypt and Ethiopia over GERD, Africa’s largest hydroelectric project, and now Trump has offered to mediate. NICHOLAS MWANGI reports
The National Education Union general secretary speaks to Ben Chacko on growing calls to protect children from a toxic online culture
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
The 2014 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) by researchers at the University of Oxford covers 108 countries — 31 low-income countries, 67 middle-income countries and 10 high-income countries. These countries have a total population of 5.4 billion people, some 78 per cent of the world’s population.
The MPI assesses poverty at the individual level. If someone is deprived in a third or more of 10weighted indicators, the global index identifies them as “MPI poor,” and the extent — or intensity — of their poverty is measured by the number of deprivations they are experiencing.
Those indicators are based on health, education and living standards and among other things include years of schooling, levels of nutrition, child mortality, flooring material (for instance, dirt) and access to water and electricity.
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