High-density city living has been touted as a way to solve the problem of creating more sustainable, more liveable cities. But instead cities are only more liveable for a few.
L’expertise universitaire, l’exigence journalistique
Articles sur Poverty
Affichage de 381 à 400 de 884 articles
When South Africa eventually emerges from the fog of the COVID-19 crisis, structural reform, including land reform, will be high on the political agenda as never before.
With unemployment soaring due to COVID-19, why is Jacinda Ardern’s centre-left government significantly less generous towards beneficiaries than Scott Morrison’s centre-right government in Australia?
The hard truth is that the more the isolation is contained, the greater the economic problems will be.
With half the global workforce facing job loss, massive stimulus packages are needed to revive emerging economies and reduce mass unemployment, poverty and starvation.
Moeketsi Majoro’s installation as Prime Minister is welcome. But it does not guarantee much needed political stability in an era of complex coalition politics.
Policies should protect arable land from urban encroachment and make peri-urban households less vulnerable.
South Africa must benchmark its education policies against high-income countries, if it wants to become one, and not measure its performance against its peers.
Book sheds new light on the evolution of the economic policy of the African National Congress, South Africa’s governing party.
The study confirms that collecting water for daily use weighs more heavily on women, making life more difficult for especially older women.
Bappenas conducted a simulation to predict how COVID-19 will impact poverty in Indonesia. Without intervention, the pandemic will drag at least 3.6 million Indonesians into poverty by the end of 2020.
COVID19 threatens to reverse years of Indonesia’s positive trends in poverty alleviation. We highlight lessons from past policies to prevent another poverty hike during the pandemic.
The policy and law applying to refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa is largely progressive. But, in practice, they continue to endure hardship and unfair treatment by officials.
Social distancing has made giving to the poor – an obligation under Islam – harder this Ramadan. Meanwhile Muslim nonprofits are feeling the strain of the economic downturn.
Study presents a model that can be scaled to improve learning outcomes and transition rates for young people living in urban informal settlements.
The ability of food banks to meet the needs of food insecure Canadians has plummeted just when it is needed most. But food banks have never been able to address the reason people are going hungry.
A ban on begging in northern Nigeria is not the solution to a region dealing with intense levels of poverty.
Economic distress was the norm for many before the coronavirus outbreak. The pandemic is an opportunity to provide an economically secure future for all.
Despite the poverty rate falling, 30.8% of children are still undernourished.
From burial sites targeted by grave robbers to disposing of ashes at sea, the job of disposing of the unclaimed dead has a rich history. Sadly, it still goes on today and is on the rise.
Les contributeurs les plus fréquents
-
Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
-
Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
-
Professor of Economics & Business, Allegheny College
-
Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
-
Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director: Southern Centre for Inequality Studies., University of the Witwatersrand
-
Distinguished Research Fellow, Human Sciences Research Council
-
Associate professor at the Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg
-
Director of the Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families and Children, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
-
Professor of Development Economics, Monash University
-
Senior Director, Transformation Strategies Department, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), CGIAR System Organization
-
Deputy Director at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
-
Chair professor, Glasgow Caledonian University
-
Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
-
Professor of Economics, University of Copenhagen
-
Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
