The authors of the Global Justice Report They are calling for a UN-led central bank to replace the International Monetary Fund.Credit: Samuel Corum/Bloomberg/Getty Ambitious. Utopian. Crackpot. These are some of the responses to last month’s post by Global Justice Report by economist Lucas Chancel of the Paris-based World Inequality Lab and his 44 co-authors. The
Low- and middle-income countries demand UN-led solutions to growing debt and wealth inequality problems.Credit: Cristina Quicler/AFP via Getty Let’s imagine a world in which almost 90% of the population earns twice as much and works half as many hours as today. One in which the share of global wealth held by the poorest half increases,
Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir have issued a sweeping order to all educational institutions to check books for “inappropriate and objectionable” content, in a move that has sparked debate over who can shape the region’s history in classrooms. The order, issued last week, directs schools, colleges, universities and training centers to review all material posted on
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Ben Franklin may have debated these constitutional questions at the Middleton Tavern, a seaside pub in Annapolis, Maryland, that is older than the country itself. The tavern boasts that everyone drank there in the early days of the new republic. There I met Lorraine Ross, who was celebrating her own
The regulations on whether a bowler is “bowling” are simple. Bowlers are not allowed to extend their arm more than 15 degrees from the moment the arm reaches the shoulder in the bowling action. “An illegal bowling action is a bowling action in which the extension of the player’s elbow exceeds 15 degrees between the