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The rising cost of a healthy diet: changing relative prices of foods in high-income and emerging economies
Research reports and studies | May 2015 | Steve Wiggins and Sharada Keats with Euan Han, Satoru Shimokawa, Joel Alberto Vargas Hernández and Rafael Moreira Claro
This report investigates the prices of different foods in some of the rapidly-growing emerging economies, where incomes have risen notably in the last 20 years. We ask what effect this has had on growing rates of overweight and obese people and whether this trend could…
Comment
Migration is capitalism’s unfinished business – it cannot and should not be stopped
Articles and blogs | 12 May 2015 | Claire Melamed
A tin of beans has more freedom to travel the world than a person does. We’ve reduced trade restrictions – are we brave enough to do the same for people?
Comment
Citizens and engagement: moving beyond slogans
Articles and blogs | 12 May 2015 | Alina Rocha Menocal
‘As the protest movements in Egypt and elsewhere have shown, citizen engagement alone is not enough to bring about change; collective organisation is essential.’
Comment
Is extreme poverty going to end by 2030?
Articles and blogs | 11 May 2015 | Chris Hoy
‘Over the next 15 years, the bulk of the reduction in poverty is expected to occur in South Asia, leaving almost all the world’s extreme poor living in sub-Saharan Africa.’