Source link The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has flagged populism and recession as risks to public order Canada’s economic prospects are “beyond bleak” and may cause civil unrest in the next five years, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has said in a confidential report to the government in Ottawa. Titled “Whole-of-Government Five-Year Trends for […]
Source link ‘Shock therapy’ reforms have propelled prices for basic good higher and led to a sharp drop in purchasing power, a new study shows Poverty levels in Argentina hit a multiple-year high in January following the drastic economic reforms carried out by newly installed President Javier Milei, the Social Debt Observatory of the Catholic […]
Source link Escaping hardship has become much more difficult over the past two decades, says the Joseph Rowntree Foundation A million more people were living in poverty in the UK in 2021-22 than in the previous year as the cost-of-living crisis worsened, new analysis by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has found. The charity’s report […]
Source link The UN has ranked Britain as one of the worst-performing countries in terms of child poverty rates among 39 members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the EU. In a report published on Wednesday, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) estimated that nearly 70 million children in high- and […]
Source link The country is maintaining “momentum” as the world’s fastest-growing major economy, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said India has lifted 135 million people out of poverty in the past five years and remains the world’s “fastest-growing” major economy, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told the country’s parliament on Thursday. Sitharaman, who featured on Forbes’ ‘World’s […]