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Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo vowed to fight inequality as his top priority for 2017. But Widodo has a massive gap to close, according to a new report by Oxfam today: Just four men own more wealth than the poorest 40 percent of the country – about 100 million people.
I can’t answer that. It could be just that the whole discipline of economics suffers from what could be called…
Here’s a story by CNN claiming the U.S. government and others are reneging on disaster aid to Haiti.
For the last few years, AIDS experts have been arguing about the claim made forcefully by some Swiss scientists that…
Dr. Jonathan Fine, speaking to UW students Unlike in China, the rising economic tide in India is not floating many…
Critics are claiming public health experts last year hyped the potential threat of a uniquely piggish version of the influenza virus – the H1N1 virus, or so-called swine flu. This time, however, some of the critics add that the hype was done to benefit the drug industry. The World Health Organization and other leading health authorities strongly reject the criticism, saying they acted prudently given the risk of a deadly pandemic such as the world experienced in 1918.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDhwHuw3IY A lot of folks aren’t too happy with the Obama Administration’s global AIDS strategy.
The forum doesn’t begin until 7 p.m. PST at Town Hall Seattle, but you can join in the conversation right…