South Africans are actively challenging the criminalisation of the state. Many of the revelations about fraud, corruption and nepotism come from principled whistle-blowers within the state.
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Widows and single women are losing their homes, after being told they can no longer work by the Taliban, and are living on the poverty line.
The future and fate of Nigeria depends on the strength of character and dedication of the incoming president.
The findings show that Zambian agricultural policies do reduce headcount poverty and inequality.
Lowering spatial inequalities can reduce economic and social inequities.
South Africa’s world-leading wage inequality has as much to do with what bosses are doing as it does with how educated or experienced workers are.
Year after year, challenges have distracted the country from its agricultural expansion goals.
Four-fifths of the first-generation Turkish men who came to Europe as guest-workers and ended up settling there lived below an income poverty line.
As the year ends, how has New Zealand fared on global and domestic measurements, from social and economic freedoms to tackling poverty and homelessness?
From the economic perspective, the year 2022 will be remembered, by many Nigerians, as a time of dashed hopes and disappointments.
Canada’s planned expansion of MAID to mental illness is based on ignorance — if not outright disregard — of fundamental suicide prevention principles.
A country of plenty like Australia should be able to ensure no one is denied their right to adequate food. But food insecurity is on the rise, and we aren’t even properly monitoring the problem.
The ravages of climate change and hunger do not occur in isolation, but are part of the system we have built.
South Africans would rather see efforts go into tackling other challenges – but climate change will intensify those challenges.
Widening access to free school meals would be an investment in England’s children.
South Africa’s policies need to do more to protect vulnerable and marginalised small-scale fishers and fishing communities.
Child sponsorship is often billed as a significant way of improving children’s lives. However, sponsorship is based on narratives that fail to address the role of rich countries in global poverty.
Used wisely, public debt could be a way to improve things for our children and grandchildren.
In 2018, Africa accounted for 70% of the world’s people displaced by armed conflict and human rights abuses.
Eight countries are projected to be behind 50% of the growth in population over the next three decades. Five are in Africa.
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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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Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand
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Distinguished Research Fellow, Human Sciences Research Council
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Associate professor at the Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Peter Whiteford is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Chair professor, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor of Development Economics, Monash University
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Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
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Director: Environment and Production Technology Division, 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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Professor of Economics, University of Copenhagen
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
