- What Is Extreme Poverty? (Global Citizen)
- Tracking Poverty From Space (Los Angeles Times)
- An ambitious project to measure the wealth of nations shows how GDP is a deceptive gauge of progress (Quartz)
Data & Demographics
- Wealth gap widening for more than 70% of global population (The Guardian)
- The shifting gravity of global poverty (World Bank)
- Definitive data on what poor people buy when they’re just given cash (Quartz)
- Global Wealth Update: 0.7% Of Adults Control $116.6 Trillion In Wealth (Zero Hedge Fund)
- The World Bank released new poverty lines — find out where your country stands (Business Insider)
- What The Stat About The 8 Richest Men Doesn't Tell Us About Inequality (NPR)
Global Inequality Consequences
- Inequality is getting so bad even Wall Street is starting to pay attention (Business Insider)
Life Chances
- A Birth Certificate is a Person’s First Possession (The Atlantic)
- These 2 Boys Were Born The Same Day In The Same Town, But Their Lives Will Be Dramatically Different (HuffPost)
Location and Migration
- A Record 68.5 Million People in the World Were Forcibly Displaced by the End of 2017 (Time)
- The Best And Worst Places To Be A Kid (NPR)
Race & Ethnic Inequality
- Mexico's Color Line and the Cultural Imperialism of Light-Skin Preference (Truthout)
- Study reveals racial inequality in Mexico, disproving its 'race-blind' rhetoric (The Conversation)
Gender Income Inequality
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Women, Burdened With Unpaid Labor, Bear Brunt of Global Inequality (The New York Times)
- There’s a huge gender component to income inequality that we're ignoring (Business Insider)
- The world’s gender wage gap won’t close for another 100 years (Market Watch)
Gender Inequality & Culture
- While the men of this village go looking for work, the women are in charge (World Economic Forum)
- Menstrual Hygiene Management Enables Women and Girls to Reach Their Full Potential (World Economic Forum)
- Death Threats & $3 Ponytails: What The Fake Hair Trade Is Hiding (Refinery 29)
- This is why 63 million girls are missing in India (New York Post)
- Honour killings in India (Al Jazeera)
- Breaking the silence in the world capital of female genital mutilation (CNN)
- Around The World, Girls Are Taught The Same Limiting Lesson (Huff Post)
Gender Inequality & Public Policy
- Women have only three quarters of economic rights of men (Reuters)
- Only six countries have equal rights for men and women (CNN)
- Sexist Global Laws (Bustle)
- Are human rights bad for women? (Reuters)
- Iceland makes it illegal to pay women less than men (CNN)
Child Marriage
Child Labor
- An army of children toils in African mica mines (NBC)
- Children mining cobalt in Democratic Republic of Congo (CBS News)
- This child being abused in a cobalt mine is why Apple is trying to fix the mining business (Business Insider)
Work Environments
- Two garment factory disasters a century apart show how globalization has sapped labor’s power (Quartz)
- In just four days, top fashion CEOs earn a garment worker’s lifetime pay (Quartz)
- How illegal gold mining in South America poisons people (Miami Herald)
- It would cost you 20 cents more per T-shirt to pay an Indian worker a living wage (The Conversation)
- The Cobalt Pipeline (The Washington Post)
Sex Trafficking, Harassment, & Violence
- Who buys a trafficked child for sex? Otherwise ordinary men. (USA Today)
- The Desperate Journey of a Trafficked Girl (New Yorker)
- We went to India’s largest brothel, where trafficked women work for as little as $3 (Vice News)
- The dangers of the new child marriage law in Bangladesh (CNN)
- Sexual harassment: How it stands around the globe (CNN)
- Why Do Men Harass Women? New Study Sheds Light On Motivations (NPR)
- Mass Rapes To Mass Protests: Violence Against Women In 2016 (Huffington Post)
Slave Labor
- Yes, Slavery Still Exists — These Countries Are the Worst Offenders (Global Citizen)
- You buy a purse at Walmart. There’s a note inside from a “Chinese prisoner.” Now what? (Vox)
- Rising in the Middle East: Forced Labor From Africa (OZY)
- New Report Finds Slavery Worse Than Ever, With 40.3 Million People Currently Enslaved (Blavity)
- People for sale: Where lives are auctioned for $400 (CNN)
- 40 million slaves in the world, finds new report (CNN)
Living Conditions
- More than one billion people do not have access to electricity (World Economic Forum)
- The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it (Our World in Data)
- An infrastructure deficit is making life in African cities more expensive than it should be (Quartz)
Food Insecurity
- A look at why so many people don't get enough food (Los Angeles Times)
Digital Divide
Global Education
- Why we should invest in getting more kids to read — and how to do it (The World Bank)
- Drive to get children back to school failing worldwide (The Guardian)
Global Health
- Obesity Was Rising as Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC. (New York Times)
- In parts of Africa, people with albinism are hunted for their body parts (The Los Angeles Times)
Public Policy
- How Africa can catch up with the world in the fight against poverty (The Conversation)
- Reduce Inequalities: Why It Matters (United Nations)
- How To Fix Poverty: Why Not Just Give People Money? (NPR)
- A College Student Complained About Capitalism. When the Prof Was Done With Him, He Was Speechless (Independent Journal Review)
Remittances
- Remittances from abroad are major economic assets for some developing countries (Pew Research Center)Global Poverty (United Nations)
Social Mobility
- Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations Around the World (World Economic Forum)
High Income Countries
- What are the richest countries in the world? (USA Today)
- This European country is a model for all the world (World Economic Forum)
- Denmark is deemed most progressive place in the world to live (Daily Mail)
- Norway unseats Denmark as world's happiest country: report (Reuters)
United States
- Statement on Visit to the USA (United Nations)
- A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America (The Guardian)
- The UN sent an envoy to investigate extreme poverty in the United States (Quartz)
- Global report sees rise in inequality in US (Politico)
Global Stratification and History