Boys at Crumpsall Workhouse, Manchester, circa 1895-1897.
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Intergenerational poverty affected children’s health in the 18th and 19th centuries – we must be aware of the risks today.
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A new mapping project shows where different types of disadvantage are most prevalent. The picture is more varied and complex than many people think.
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Kenya’s urban poor lack enough food and the little they can afford is often unsafe and of poor nutritional value.
Centrelink queues shocked Australians but long before COVID-19 Western Sydney had job-poor neighbourhoods with very high unemployment rates.
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Western Sydney’s growth-driven boom had ended before COVID-19 hit. Some neighbourhood unemployment rates were 2-3 times the metropolitan average, with female workforce participation as low as 43%.
A Cholera Patient, Random Shots No. 2. Cartoon by British satirist Robert Cruikshank, circa 1832.
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Pandemic histories are useful for understanding COVID-19, but how they connect with race, public health, revolution, labour and colonialism are needed to explain the present and predict the future.
Does the budget tabled by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni (right) speak to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s (left) vision of the new economy?
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The budget is one of the key tools that government has to effect meaningful change.
President Muhammadu Buhari raises his fist during an inspection of honour guards on parade to mark Democracy Day in Abuja, on June 12, 2019.
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President Buhari’s Post COVID-19 economic recovery plan is neither novel nor ground-breaking.
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By many measures, America is failing, and its people - in fact, the world - need the nuclear and military giant to turn itself around.
Marcus Rashford has turned his public profile towards helping people in crisis during the lockdown.
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How the Manchester United and England star gave the UK government a lesson in the power of moral leadership.
A group of sharecroppers, evicted from their land in the Great Depression, stand beside a Missouri road in January 1939.
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In many national crises, black Americans have been essential workers – but serving in crucial roles has not resulted in economic equality.
Kenyan miners have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic
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The COVID-19 pandemic has accentuated the existing challenges facing artisanal and small-scale mining in Kenya.
Sudanese protesters gather to mark the first anniversary of a raid on an anti-government sit-in, in the Riyadh district in the east of the capital Khartoum on June 3, 2020.
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Despite its dire health and economic situation, Sudan has yet to access emergency funding to combat COVID-19.
India is one country where poverty levels are expected to rise.
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The virus threatens to push half a billion people into extreme poverty around the world.
South Africa has among the worst youth unemployment rates in the world.
Employment programmes cannot replace economic growth in improving youth employability, but they play a crucial role in helping them find work.
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In this week’s round-up of coronavirus articles by scholars around the globe, we explore the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 and the latest on drug trials.
Dotheboys Hall, from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens. Illustration by ‘Phiz’ (Hablot K. Browne).
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Dickens’s novels highlighted the poverty of education for the working classes. The all-important Education Act was finally passed in the year of his death.
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Will police accept the challenge of ending
Māori over-representation at every stage of the criminal justice system in Aotearoa-New Zealand?
Sub-Sahara African countries are on a campaign to reduce cases of early marriage.
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The mental health implications of child marriage on young girls are significant
High-density poverty in urban areas exists largely not by accident, but by design.
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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.
Land reform can assist in creating more employment-intensive farming systems
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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.