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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A growing divide between rich and poor risks will yawn still wider if cash-strapped governments keep cutting back the welfare state, an industrialised nations’ think-tank warned on Wednesday. Weighing into a debate on inequality in developed countries, the 33-nation Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said welfare spending had mitigated an increase in the wealth gap that emerged with the 2008-2009 financial crisis, but that was running out. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A new report, based on 140 interviews with sex workers, clients, police, public health officials and NGO workers, calls on the government to legalise solicitation, end crackdowns and prohibit arbitrary arrests and detentions. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Justin Green, on May 10th, 2013 Something to ponder this weekend from Timothy Noah’s book, The Great Divergence:
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> President Xi Jinping’s crackdown on Chinese government extravagance has emptied top-end restaurants and dented the sale of expensive food and drink, putting downward pressure on the world’s second largest economy. High-end caterers in Beijing and other big cities have borne the brunt of Xi’s austerity drive, which he launched in November in an attempt to tackle pervasive corruption and allay criticism of the lifestyles led by some officials. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s richest people are stepping up investment in US real estate and other foreign assets as they try to preserve their fortunes in the face of a fast-changing economy, a report said on Tuesday. The report by China Merchants Bank and the consulting firm Bain & Company in China reflects uncertainties about abrupt shifts in an economy in which growth slowed last year to 7.8 per cent from the past decade’s double-digit rates. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> After six consecutive years of brutal recession, with homeless and unemployment rates skyrocketing, Greek society is experiencing an “unheard-of fragmentation”, made worse by fierce austerity measures, experts say. Battered by the eurozone’s three-year debt crisis and four years of austerity, Greece has the highest unemployment rate in the 27-nation European Union, with more than one in four people out of work. And this economic crisis has now transformed into a social emergency, according to UN expert on debt and human rights, Cephas Lumina. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 1st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Thousands of workers paraded through central Dhaka on May Day to demand safer work conditions and the death penalty for the owner of a building housing garment factories that collapsed last week in the country’s worst industrial disaster, killing at least 402 people and injuring 2,500. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By SARAH MASLIN NIR, on April 30th, 2013 The movement won accolades for its hurricane recovery efforts, but some members say it has strayed from its core message of income inequality.
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By , on April 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The education system may need an overhaul to improve opportunities for those stuck in a lower class life, an education researcher suggested after a survey found widespread pessimism among young people on their chances of climbing the social ladder. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Horacio Cartes, a Paraguayan tobacco magnate, faced various challenges during his presidential bid. He was pressed to explain why anti-narcotics police officers seized a plane carrying cocaine and marijuana on his ranch in 2000; why he went to prison in 1989 on currency fraud charges; and why he had never voted in past general elections. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 11th, 2013 
The Korean crisis will be high on the agenda when foreign ministers from the G8 group of nations hold talks in London.
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By , on April 10th, 2013 
The well-being of British children has improved in a number of areas in recent years but they still lag behind many of their European neighbours, Unicef says.
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David Cameron will lead tributes to the former Conservative prime minister Baroness Thatcher later on Wednesday in a specially convened session of Parliament.
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By , on April 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The 83 workers killed in the disaster were almost all members of the Han ethnic majority and from across the country, illustrating how minorities rarely see the fruits of underground wealth – not even dangerous jobs. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Jean Stevens led the morning session’s closing prayer on Saturday for the more than 100,000 Mormons gathered in the United States for the two-day general conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the millions more watching via satellite, radio or internet translated into more than 90 languages. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Former South African president Nelson Mandela left hospital on Saturday after more than a week of treatment of pneumonia that raised global concern about the health of the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader. “He has been discharged from hospital today … following a sustained and gradual improvement in his general condition,” the South African presidency said in a statement. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Nelson Mandela stayed in hospital for a fourth day yesterday after South African officials said he was making steady progress following treatment for a recurrence of pneumonia. The frail 94-year-old, one of the towering figures of modern history, was admitted on Wednesday for his third hospitalisation in four months. Doctors drained a build-up of fluid, known as a pleural effusion or “water on the lungs”, that had developed from Mandela’s lung infection. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Nelson Mandela was responding positively to treatment on Thursday after being readmitted to hospital with a lung infection, the latest health scare for the revered anti-apartheid icon. President Jacob Zuma sought to reassure South Africans that Mandela was in good hands as doctors reported some progress in his treatment. “The country must not panic, Madiba is fine,” Zuma told the BBC, referring to South Africa’s first black president by his clan name. The 94-year-old was hospitalised just before midnight on Wednesday and is expected to spend a second night in care. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chile’s former leader, Michelle Bachelet, ended months of speculation by announcing she will run in a November presidential poll that she is favoured to win. A popular centre-leftist who ruled Chile from 2006 to 2010, Bachelet will likely face a candidate from the right-wing bloc of President Sebastian Pinera, who is barred from seeking a consecutive term under the constitution. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s Ministry of Finance released the central government’s 2013 budget on Monday, a week after the annual national parliamentary convention. The budget for internal security was set at 128.9 billion yuan (HK$161 billion), up 10.6 billion yuan or 9 per cent from a year before. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Rich nations’ wealth gap widens as welfare cut: OECD
<!– google_ad_section_start –> A growing divide between rich and poor risks will yawn still wider if cash-strapped governments keep cutting back the welfare state, an industrialised nations’ think-tank warned on Wednesday. Weighing into a debate on inequality in developed countries, the 33-nation Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said welfare spending had mitigated an increase in the wealth gap that emerged with the 2008-2009 financial crisis, but that was running out. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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