Most exit the out-of-home care system at 18, or younger, without ongoing support.
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Russia’s invasion isn’t only devastating the lives of ordinary Ukrainians but is also disrupting global supply chains and increasing poverty around the world.
More than a third of people living in South Africa’s richest province Gauteng can’t afford to buy enough food.
Experts say making meals available to all students reduces the stigma associated with a free lunch.
In the face of rising food prices in Nigeria, many salary earners have had to change the quality of foodstuff they buy or opt for cheaper alternatives.
Kibaki’s goals were to expand access to education, and to make universities more efficient and self-sustaining.
Freedom Day needs to be used by South Africans to renew their commitment to correcting their country’s faults.
Companies are moving their production back to developed countries. This is jeopardising the decades-long progress in global poverty reduction.
The loss of income, economic and food insecurity, fear of infection, and death of family members resulted in feelings of frustration, anxiety and depression.
Low literacy levels are a common contributing factor in Australia’s homeless population. We asked people who have experienced homelessness how poor literacy affected their lives – and what would help.
Environmental catastrophe, war, a worldwide pandemic. What does this mean for feeding the world today and in the future?
Challenges in evidence, long-term planning and public understanding mean that universal basic income has become easier said than done.
The author of Shuggie Bain returns to the public housing schemes of 1980s working-class Glasgow to explore the redemptive power of secure love and the dangers of violent, dominating masculinity.
Investment in green technologies in sectors which cause significant environmental pollution can create a double dividend.
Why the government’s main measure of poverty doesn’t tell us much about the lowest-income people.
Opinion and evidence differ on minimum wage policies, but one thing seems clear – they need to be better integrated within a wider economic support strategy.
Governments acted swiftly to reduce homelessness during the pandemic. Their actions could tell us how to end it permanently.
Old age poverty is looming for thousands of New Zealanders who are going into retirement without a house, without savings and facing high costs of living.
Experts on poverty in Britain explain how destitution affects different groups of people and aspects of life.
Adults in the US reported the same levels of depression a year into the pandemic as they did at the outset.
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Economics & Business, Allegheny College
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Associate professor at the Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg
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Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director: Southern Centre for Inequality Studies., University of the Witwatersrand
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Director of the Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families and Children, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Distinguished Research Fellow, Human Sciences Research Council
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Senior Research Specialist, Human Sciences Research Council
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Professor of Economics, University of Copenhagen
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Chair professor, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
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Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City, University of London
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Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
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Senior Director, Transformation Strategies Department, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), CGIAR System Organization
