Poverty
Statement on Visit to the United Kingdom, by Professor Philip Alston,...
16 November 2018
Introduction
The UK is the world’s fifth largest economy, it contains many areas of immense wealth, its capital is a leading centre of...
Social Protection, health care and system change
The world is full of contradictions. In one part of the world people are leaving their homes and their country, traveling towards a very...
China Signals Slower Growth Is Acceptable to Tackle Debt, Smog
25 Δεκεμβρίου 2017
China can achieve a goal of doubling the size of its economy by 2020 even if annual expansion slows to 6.3 percent,...
One in three Greeks live in poverty or social exclusion, Eurostat...
One in three Greeks live in conditions of poverty social exclusion, compared to an average of one in four citizens in European Union countries,...
Survey shows crisis-ridden Greek households cut even on milk and bread
September 7, 2017
The economic crisis continues to plague Greek households struggling too make ends meet – month in, month out. A survey conducted by...
More places for foreigners in Greek Beaches!
Most Greeks Cannot Afford a Week’s Holiday
By Tasos Kokkinidis
Aug 1, 2017
More than 50% of Greeks cannot afford a week’s holiday according to data...
Growing Poverty Fuels Europe’s Extremism
Exclusive: The European Union’s neoliberal economic orthodoxy has spread income inequality and even poverty across the Continent, spurring extremist movements to challenge this system,...
Poverty in Greece Gone Up 40% Since 2008
By Phillip Chrysopoulos
The poverty in Greece increased by 40% from 2008 to 2015, according to a Cologne Institute of Economic Research study on European...
Keep Destroying Greece
The loss of a quarter of economic output and the increase in the unemployment rate close to 28 percent at one point have been widely and repeatedly reported as Greece has struggled through a state of perma-crisis in recent years