Climate : Richest 1% emit as much carbon pollution as two-thirds of humanity (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
The richest 1% of the world's population we re responsible for 16% of global carbon emissions in 2019, which is the same a s the emissions of the five billion people who made up the poorest two-thirds of humanity, according to a new report by Oxfam International.

Opinion : Middle-income country trap? (PRIV)
(IPS, Kuala Lumpur)
In recent decades, failure to sustain economic progress has been blamed on a supposed middle-income country (MIC) trap. Such blaming obscures as much as it supposedly explains.

Venezuela : Young women particularly vulnerable to the crisis (PRIV)
(IPS, Caracas)
Hemmed in by poverty, with barely tw o days of school a week, and often at risk of unwanted pregnancy or the uncer tain prospect of emigration, young women and adolescents are among the main victims of the ongoing crisis in Venezuela.