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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.
Social scientists in Nigeria communicate their research results more among themselves than they do to policymakers and the general public.
Social security reforms are needed that include support for the long-term and chronically unemployed and informal workers.
Nigeria has the largest number of people living in extreme poverty in Africa. Turning the tide requires inclusive growth, value added productivity and strong institutions.
The number of retirees at risk of poverty is growing, making them three times more likely to experience poverty than any other age group.
A liaison group with large financial institutions has worked in the US and the Netherlands.
When it comes to helping students who are homeless during the pandemic, identifying who they are is crucial, says a researcher studying the issue in one of the largest US school districts.
Whereas digital work can bring freedom and flexibility into the lives of workers in Africa, it can also contribute towards their precarity and vulnerability.
Unresolved historical injustices, deepened in new forms, undermined compliance with Ghana’s COVID lockdown.
Many formal sector jobs are increasingly precarious and poorly paid, meaning that formal work is not an avenue to greater social equality for many people.
The sums aren’t adding for South Africa on either the spending or revenue side. It’s a problem that’s developed over time with no action being taken.
The risk from heat waves is about more than intensity – being able to cool off is essential, and that’s hard to find in many low-income areas of the world.
The most affordable homes face the highest risks from disasters for three key reasons.
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Economics & Business, Allegheny College
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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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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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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Distinguished Research Fellow, Human Sciences Research Council
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Senior Director, Transformation Strategies Department, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), CGIAR System Organization
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Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City, University of London
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Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
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Professor of Development Economics, Monash University
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Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
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