Tag: inequality
The pandemic has exacerbated inequality
© Nature, adapted from: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Sidik, SM: How COVID has deepened inequality – in six stark graphics. Nature 606, 2022 (detail) Ethnic Inequality |…
“Inequality in cancer in France is the variation in oncology of the famous medical deserts”
Lhe World Health Organization (WHO) is formal: “How the phenomenon of inequalities in cancer evolves and changes over time (…) concerns everyone, but the most disadvantaged people are particularly affected.…
Governments must take urgent action to tackle inequality -Oxfam
The report, released by the Nairobi-based charity as top policy makers and business leaders arrive in the Swiss city of Davos for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum…
Africa: many millionaires, massive inequality
The number of millionaires in Africa increased significantly last year – despite the corona pandemic. But inequality has also increased. Nowhere in the world is it bigger than in South…
Inflation reinforces inequality in the face of holidays
Inflation in prices at the pump, tourist overnight stays, but also… holidaymakers in seaside resorts, from Boulonnais (Pas-de-Calais) to Arcachon (Gironde): the Easter weekend resulted in seemingly paradoxical findings .…
plagued by inequality, Russia is heading for a historic recession
In front of an ATM in Saint Petersburg (Russia), February 28, 2022. MARIA PETROVA FOR “THE WORLD” “From the first sanctions, my mother said: ‘Above all, stock up on medicine’.…
“A policy of promoting access to property is not synonymous with less inequality”
Chronic. The question of heritage has come back in force in the presidential debates. The rights compete with proposals for a “France of owners”, in the words of Valérie Pécresse.…
“Public sector home helpers suffer from a profound inequality of treatment”
Grandstand. The revelations published in Victor Castanet’s book, The Gravediggers (Fayard, 400 pages, 22.90 euros), are appalling. They ask many questions about the accompaniment of our seniors, its financing, its…
“Preventing wage increases will only increase the inequality of the inflationary burden”
Chronic. This inflation, which was not expected, hits the most modest hard and does not present the known characteristics of previous periods of inflation. Should we, under these conditions, prevent…
Growing social inequality: Ten richest people double their fortunes in the pandemic
Monday 17 January 2022 Growing social inequality Ten richest double fortunes in pandemic The ten richest billionaires are doubling their fortunes, while 160 million people worldwide are falling into poverty:…
World Economic Forum warns of growing inequality
A high school student receives a dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in Bangalore, India, January 10, 2022. MANJUNATH KIRAN / AFP How much will the Covid-19 pandemic affect the global…
The inequality of the distribution of household tasks degrades couples according to a study
NEWSLETTERS fun, news, tips … what else? Even if more and more heterosexual couples are trying to distribute household chores better, these are still largely taken over by women. However,…