STWR - Share The World's Resources

As if to demonstrate that poverty is now a residual issue in the world, the poor are being slowly eliminated from the imagery of the busy global media.

In its most recent World Economic Outlook even the International Monetary Fund (IMF) dealt with the issue of "globalisation and inequality". In the last two decades, according to the IMF, income inequality has increased in most regions and in most countries worldwide. 

The rich are getting richer due to market forces—and to very human choices, writes Daniel Gross in this Newsweek special report.

117,000 Women Dead From Childbirth, But, Take Cheer, the Market is Soaring!

There is a “mystery” we must explain: How is it that as corporate investments and foreign aid and international loans to poor countries have increased dramatically throughout the world over the last half century, so has poverty? 

Some people, at year's end, like to spread holiday cheer. The world might do better, suggests a landmark new report  from the United Nations University in Helsinki, to start spreading wealth.

Huge gifts to charity from U.S. billionaire Warren Buffett and others have won widespread praise, but some say the same economic process that helped earn those fortunes is leaving billions more in dire poverty.