The impact of COVID-19 on the airline industry
On a clear night of March an Airbus A340 lowered its landing gear as it entered final approach to Munich airport. Inside the cockpit, captain Jörg Otto received final permission to land from air traffic control. Behind, the cabin was filled to the brim, all seats taken. Silence followed as the aircraft lightly glided down
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On Monday, there were roughly 5,300 registered cases of COVID-19 and over 200 deaths in the African continent. On 17 July 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Ebola a global health emergency for the fifth time. As the world’s poorest continent continues to fight against this virus and other life-threatening diseases such
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Zoning Laws
From Sydney to San Francisco to Hong Kong to Amsterdam to possibly your hometown, housing affordability remains a pertinent political issue that has raged for years if not decades. Median income to house price ratios continue to be incredibly high in many major cities, further widening the rift between the poor and the rich as
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The Coronavirus has taken the world by storm. Covid-19, a virus that originated in Wuhan, China, has spread around the world and has become a pandemic according to the WHO. As of 29th March, more than 710.000 cases and 33.000 deaths have been confirmed, with the highest number of cases registered in Italy, China and
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Economic inequality has increased in nearly all countries for the past decades. Institutions and policies do matter in preventing it.
As a record number of private jets landed in Davos in January 2019 for the World Economic Forum, non-profit Oxfam released its annual inequality statistics. The report stated that the 26 richest billionaires own as many assets as the 3.8 billion people making up the poorest half of the planet’s population. It added that, in
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Never before have I been forbidden from leaving my home by the government. Coincidently, neither have my parents. My grandparents lived through the brutal Spanish civil war, and even they find the situation shocking. Universities and schools around the world lay barren, alongside bars and cinemas, in an attempt to fight the spread of the
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