dossier 2018/12 unequal opportunities

Unequal opportunities

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Slum close to high-rise apartments in Mumbai, India.
Our view
– by Hans Dembowski

Why we need the SDGs

If market dynamics resulted in equal opportunities and broad-based prosperity, we would not need the SDGs
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Lebanon
– by Mona Naggar

Fear of exclusion

Non-extreme poverty is a major problem in Lebanon, and state agencies do not help
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Multilateral bank
– by Hans Dembowski

Vast role for governments

World Bank wants governments to do more to build human capital, generate taxes and provide social protection
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Multilateral bank
– by Korinna Horta

Reform gone wrong

The World Bank’s social and environmental standards have been weakened significantly
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International finance institution
– by Korinna Horta

Dangerous transformation

World Bank can do more lending – and charges more interest rates
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Development strategy
– by Sabine Balk

“People have created poverty”

Anthropologist reframes poverty the result of plundering by a few people in rich countries at poor countries’ expense
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