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The focus should be firmly on reducing the count of those defined as poor, rather than trying to bring down the numbers of wealthy in a flawed quest to establish a more equal society by taking away assets from the prosperous and giving it away to the less affluent through an inheritance tax. A falling count of the poor would also mean that those previously counted as poor as getting better off. Here are five counters to Piketty and Pitroda:

The Jamaican Giant Galliwasp, a species now presumed extinct, is thought to have been collected in the 1850s and became part of the University of Glasgow collections in 1888.

A 170-year-old lizard specimen is to be returned to its Jamaican homeland from a Scottish university collection as part of reparatory justice moves.

A Nigerian academic, Prof. Abubakar Sule Sani, has been listed among eight new Global Professors awarded by the British Academy.

Faced with sky-high inflation, low salaries and an overstretched healthcare system, doctors and nurses are leaving Nigeria in their thousands every year for better opportunities abroad

LAGOS, April 9, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Faced with sky-high inflation, low salaries and an overstretched healthcare system, doctors and nurses

Stakeholders have called for strengthened women's economic empowerment interventions in Nigeria for maximum impact.

BEIJING: Chinese power companies are expanding their presence in global green energy projects, with a particular focus on solar and wind power, according to an industry report.

'How can you do proper science if your needs are not met? Science is not a priority in the Philippines. But I hope it will be,' says Germany-based Filipino professor Denise Margaret Matias

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