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The decline of the welfare state has boosted the rise of the far right
['Ishaan Tharoor', 'Dan Diamond', 'Jonathan Edwards', 'Maureen Linke', 'Tim Meko', 'Shane O Neill', 'Matthew Choi', 'Dan Merica', 'Daniel Wolfe', 'Naema Ahmed']
The Washington Post
Olivier De Schutter has a message not many governments want to hear.
On Wednesday, the United Nations’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights will deliver a report to the U.N. General Assembly on how cuts and curbs to welfare programs and social spending across the world have stoked popular discontent and, as a result, far-right politics.