Unemployed people in South Africa suffer acute distress and more needs to be done to give them social support.
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Zimbabwe’s energy policy needs to be reconsidered if the country’s electricity shortage is to be resolved.
An often invisible force is undercutting support for policies that help Americans facing economic hardship.
Children’s eating styles are different in deprived areas.
Our research has found that staff discussions of Christianity in food banks may put people off using them.
Boris Johnson claimed in a BBC interview that child poverty was going down. An expert on child poverty looked at the data.
Economic growth is a red herring if economies can’t stop themselves shrinking more and more.
A new system of carers’ leave would allow middle-aged Australians to care for their ageing parents while staying in the workforce.
The effect is the transfer of wealth away from the poorest workers.
Many trendy ‘Instagrammable’ foods have a long association with poverty.
Food poverty is increasingly generating child victims, whose only salvation comes from donations of emergency food provisions.
The South African child support grant is progressive in its gender-neutrality, yet men make up only 2% of those who collect it.
Loneliness is a bigger cause of death than a poor diet, obesity, alcohol consumption, and lack of exercise, and it’s on a par with heavy smoking. So let’s get talking about it.
Record numbers of people are in work but the number of those in employment and in poverty is also rising.
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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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Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director: Southern Centre for Inequality Studies., University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate professor at the Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg
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Distinguished Research Fellow, Human Sciences Research Council
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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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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Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
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Senior Director, Transformation Strategies Department, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), CGIAR System Organization
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Professor of economics, Fordham University
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Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City, University of London
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Deputy Director at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Development Economics, Monash University
