Cuba resurrects dollar-only stores, a symbol of inequality
In communist Cuba, some customers are more equal than others, as a 40-year-old math teacher who was out shopping recently in Havana with his son discovered. The pair passed a…
Disturbing inequality
The policies of Pakistan’s ruling elite have turned the country into a death trap for ordinary people in the holy month of Ramazan. The hapless, wretched and destitute rely on…
Women, inequality and the bar
Pakistan’s women lawyers got a boost recently when two women lawyers Rabiya Bajwa and Sabahat Rizvi were elected as vice-president and secretary-general of the Lahore High Court Bar. Before this,…
Women and political inequality
GENDER inequality takes a variety of forms in Pakistan, but a fundamental one — and one whose rectification may help address all other variants as well — is political inequality.…
Rising inequality
Back in April 2017, only a few months after Donald Trump’s inauguration, one of world’s most prestigious medical journals, the London-based Lancet, established a special commission to keep tabs on…
Legal battles, education sessions and firings: Inside the fight for unions at Samsung
When Jo Jang-hee, a restaurant manager at a Samsung amusement park, tried to set up a labour union in 2011, human resources managers gathered him and some 60 colleagues into…
As inequality grows, Brazilians irked by tax to ousted royal heirs
With its colonial mansions, landscaped gardens and ornate fountains, the town of Petropolis, a traditional haunt of Brazil's last monarch Dom Pedro II, retains a grandeur that has not faded…
Credentialed inequality
LAST week, the Minister for Federal Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mahmood, was forced to issue a clarification on the future of the GCSE/GCE (‘O’ and ‘A’ level) system in…
No human is illegal
The United States would have been nothing without its millions of immigrants, so many of them illegal now, the world’s refuse to this day fissioning into prosperity. Nor is it…
The way out of inequality
Earlier this year, Oxfam shook the world by disclosing that the world's 62 richest persons now own the same wealth on which survive the poorest 3.6 million. The report concluded:…
