$2 a day bought me a lacto-ovo-pesco vegetarian style diet (milk, eggs and fish) but with very small quantities of protein foods.
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Last week I joined 8,500 Australians on the charity challenge to live below the extreme poverty line, spending just $2 a day on food for five days. It was tough and my diet was far from complete.
Indigenous people have poorer health outcomes than their non-Indigenous counterparts.
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Indigenous people in Australia and New Zealand, despite the distance separating them and varying histories, have one disturbing issue in common: poor health.
The earth is a finite place.
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Sub-Saharan Africa has seen widespread economic growth since 1995. But increased agricultural productivity is needed to translate that growth into poverty reduction.
Derek Yu, University of the Western Cape; Atoko Kasongo, University of the Western Cape, and Mariana Moses, University of the Western Cape
South Africa’s labour market suffers from high unemployment. Reform of the education system may provide the only long-term sustainable solution to the problem.
Will government cuts to tax credits hit Britain’s poorest the hardest?
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Plans to stop universal credit payments in favour of a ‘national living wage’ will not address the long-standing poverty of many people in paid employment.
Economic growth is a necessary condition for development. But it can only pass the sufficient condition test if growth translates into high-earning jobs. Ghana’s recent history illustrates this.
The call to action to address childhood vulnerability in Africa must go far beyond those children infected and affected by HIV.
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The Flint water crisis has left people across the country wondering if lead poisoning is a problem in their community. But it’s very hard to find out how widespread this problem is.
To achieve faster growth and development Uganda must move workers from agriculture into manufacturing
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Astrid R.N. Haas, London School of Economics and Political Science
To achieve its ambition of becoming a middle income country, Uganda must accelerate the movement of workers from agriculture and the informal sector into modern industries.
A great deal of detail about poverty and inequality in South Africa remains unspoken.
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Much international aid fails to achieve its ends because the technology employed is not “appropriate” to its intended environment or culture. This needs to change.
Recent studies show that development aid to poor countries contributes in the long term to their economic growth. But the aid architecture has adapted slowly to a new reality.