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UNDP warns inequality drags on progress

Inequalities in education, health and living standards caused a 20% loss in global progress towards aspects of needed “human development” last year.

By Arete News - December 9, 2019

Women in East Africa carrying heavy wood piles on a road where men typically walk unencumbered or drive carts (AN/alchen_x)

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