COVID-19 Impact on Inequality: What does the Latest Analysis Show Us?
By Max Lawson Coronavirus and inequality; what is the latest? Last year at the Annual Meetings of the World Bank and IMF there was a lot of talk about the impact of Coronavirus on inequality levels; in short a widespread agreement that the likelihood was…
COVID-19 in South Africa: The intersections of race and inequality
SERIES: Race, Covid + Inequality A year after the World Health Organization first declared COVID-19 a global health emergency, we are nearing 100,000,000 cases and over 2,100,000 coronavirus deaths. And while the coronavirus can wreak havoc on anyone, anywhere, there is nothing equal about the impact…
Beating COVID: How Australian Aboriginal Communities Mobilised to Fight the Pandemic
SERIES: Race, Covid + Inequality A year after the World Health Organization first declared COVID-19 a global health emergency, we are nearing 100,000,000 cases and over 2,100,000 coronavirus deaths. And while the coronavirus can wreak havoc on anyone, anywhere, there is nothing equal about the impact…
Doreen Ligomeka, My Friend
By Max Lawson Head of Inequality Policy at Oxfam International & EQUALS Podcast co-host Over twenty years ago, I went to live in Malawi. I ended up there because I formed a strong friendship with a Malawian called Stuart Ligomeka during my postgraduate studies. We were about the…
CANADA: Racism & Inequality is the First Crisis!
SERIES: Race, Covid + Inequality A year after the World Health Organization first declared COVID-19 a global health emergency, we are nearing 100,000,000 cases and over 2,100,000 coronavirus deaths. And while the coronavirus can wreak havoc on anyone, anywhere, there is nothing equal about the impact…
Brazilian Black Women: Powerful Resilience amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
SERIES: Race, Covid + Inequality A year after the World Health Organization first declared COVID-19 a global health emergency, we are nearing 100,000,000 cases and over 2,100,000 coronavirus deaths. And while the coronavirus can wreak havoc on anyone, anywhere, there is nothing equal about the…
SCHOOLS OUT FOR COVID! – Fighting the New Education Inequality Crisis, with Dr. Prachi Srivastava and Linda Oduor-Noah
By Elizabeth Njambi COVID-19 has pushed over a billion kids out of school. What must we do right now to ensure this isn’t a “lost generation”? How does inequality affect access to education? And why do private schools present such a challenge to quality education…