CONTENTS

THE BIG STORY

J A M E S O AT WAY/ PA N O S

POVERTY

15 Shut out

What will it take to shift the odds stacked against poor people? Dinyar Godrej investigates.

20 Argentina’s big squeeze

Food prices soar in a country known as an agricultural powerhouse. Amy Booth explains what’s going on.

23 A brief history of impoverishment

How poverty has been created down the ages.

26 Who’s the thief?

John Christensen on the big steal of wealth from the Global South via tax havens in the Global North.

29 Can cash hand-outs cure poverty?

Brazil’s Bolsa Família is the world’s largest scheme of cash transfers to poor people. Vanessa Martina Silva takes its measure.

32 For a few cents more

Trade unionist Anannya Bhattacharjee on taking the fight for living wages for garment workers in Asia to the global brands who profit from their labour.

36 We can’t grow our way out of poverty

But there are plenty of ways to end it – right now. Jason Hickel lays it on the line.

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CURRENTS

Stories making the news   8 Democracy in peril in Bolivia

Plus: Borderlines   9 Reintroducing: Zoran Milanović

Plus: Seriously? 10 Nigeria’s Abuja courts rule sex work ‘not a crime’

Holding Israel to account Ravaged Australia

Plus: Inequality Watch Plus: Sign of the Times 12 Exploitation-free tomatoes in Italy

Plus: Open Window 13 A brutal blasphemy verdict in Pakistan

Plus: Reasons to be cheerful

REGULARS   6 Letters

Plus: Why I…   7 Letter from Johannesburg

Difficult things are not left unsaid – that’s what Yewande Omotoso likes about the city she calls home.

40 Country Profile: Pakistan

42 Cartoon History

Darryl Cunningham proposes solutions to our ‘global oligarchy problem’ in an extract from his graphic novel Billionaires.

48 The Debate

Should prisons be abolished? Kelsey Mohamed and Andrew Neilson argue for and against the motion.

53 Southern Exposure

Upside down in Cairo by Egyptian photographer Ebrahim Elmoly.

58 Hall of Infamy

Luis Almagro, Secretary-General of the Organization of American States, shows off some nifty moves.

60 The Interview

In spite of threats and arrest, Virginia Pinares is not afraid to take on Big Mining. The indigenous human rights defender from rural Peru speaks to Vanessa Baird.

65 Temperature Check

What’s the best way to fight for climate justice when your government is not green? Danny Chivers seeks answers from activists in Australia, Brazil and the US.

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