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Refugees, a particular kind of migrants

The only humanitarian ‘urgency’ for the government in relation to the hundreds of thousands of refugees in Europe has been to talk about ‘fixing’ the countries from which people are fleeing.   Mabel Encinas   Opening the doors to refugees was discarded in the UK so far in spite of […]

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Inequality, eroded democracy and populism

Covid-19 recovery is measurably and visibly occurring in many countries, but low-income countries have not even returned to 2019 levels, according to this analysis produced since 1990 by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).   Elizabeth Borrego   The poorest nations are stagnating and, in many of them, conditions are […]