Rachel Williamson-Dean, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau; Gavin Brown, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau e Pat Bullen, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Children who move schools often can struggle. But so too can those who stay put while others come and go. More attention needs to be paid to these often-forgotten victims of school transience.
After separation, mothers who experienced domestic violence on average suffered a drop in income of 34%, compared with a 20% decrease for mothers who didn’t experience domestic violence.
People trained in the informal sector are equally skilled or better than those who attended formal training.
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Indonesia has more than doubled its government-funded energy subsidies this year, to Rp 349.9 trillion (US$23.56 billion). But how else could that money be spent to help people who need it most?
New train services like this, in Lagos, are designed to boost economic activities and ease movement of passengers.
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A tax credit expansion played a big role in child poverty reduction. But the government’s failure to reach all eligible Americans meant many families never got that temporary benefit.
Government gets R90 billion a year from fuel levies.
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One 11-year old girl told us she knows once rent is paid, there is almost nothing left over. So she never takes school excursion notes home, in case the cost is too much.
Protests demanding better living in Angola have become common since 2011. This one was in November 2020.
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Angola’s 2022 election is the first in which citizens born after the war are old enough to vote.
The African Energy Commission says expanded access to new, people-centred renewable energy systems will “lift hundreds of millions of people” out of poverty.
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The country urgently needs more people who are committed to living decently to undo the systemic humiliation caused by political and economic institutions.
A protest in Johannesburg against the lack of service delivery or basic necessities such as access to water and electricity.
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The country is still a very different political space. It’s a noisy democracy with a free media, lots of dissenting voices, and insulting the government doesn’t carry any overt sanction.
An electoral official counts votes at a polling station.
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Soaring inflation in the US has been driven in part by large increases in the price of groceries – a burden that falls disproportionately on lower-income families.
A Colombo resident searches for fuel amid the economic crisis.
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Higher Social Security benefits can significantly reduce the odds of an older person’s being food insecure.
Children living in low-income neighborhoods with ‘hands-off’ norms about safety showed higher levels of reactivity in a region of the brain associated with emotion processing and threat detection.
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The latest findings add to the understanding of how social disadvantage such as poverty and low-quality, unsafe housing can affect early child development.
Most research on poverty has focused on the effects on mothers, but a new study shows the importance of turning increased attention to fathers’ mental health.
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