Banks have received 10 times more money in bailouts in the past year than poor countries have received in aid in the past 49 years, says a new UN analysis.
The global pay gap between men and women is higher than previously recorded.
Impoverished women farmers worldwide are demanding ownership of the land they cultivate. Women produce up to 80% of food in most developing countries, but own less than 2% of the world's titled land.
Money can buy you happiness, after all, according to authoritative recent research - but only so long as you spend the money on someone else.
Global financial, food, and fuel crises and the negative impacts of climate change pose a severe threat to the world's 37 million uprooted people.