Increasing police patrols won’t solve South Africa’s high rates of violent crime. Underlying problems need to be addressed.
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The collapse of the oil price in 2014 highlighted the need for Nigeria to dilute its exposure on the commodity.
South Africans debating the zero rating of certain products for VAT purposes must realise it isn’t a panacea for poor people and should be accompanied by other policies.
Framing xenophobic violence as a question of immigrant victimisation invites divisions between neighbours.
Far too many people in Britain rely on high-cost short-term credit from alternative lenders.
Despite a relatively slow start, South Africa can speed up its implementation of the SDGs.
Without contextual knowledge, education and adaptation, foreign or imposed practices or resources cause new sets of problems.
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to take South Africa’s ruling party seriously when it talks about economic reform.
Ontario’s basic income project was deeply flawed and cursed by a lack of quality data. It needs a major overhaul.
Glues, paints, spray deodorants and fuels are all abused for their psychoactive effects.
Economists, politicians and the media watch GDP closely. But it isn’t the best way to measure the health of the US economy.
Lots of things have happened in a century, but poverty has proven persistently hard to treat.
Increasing numbers of parents are being accused of child abuse.
In a developed country like the UK, why can life expectancy within just a few miles differ by as much as 18 years?
South Africa needs to improve efforts to increase student numbers at technical colleges.
A White House Council concluded that the war on poverty is “largely over.” But, while poverty among seniors has declined, poverty among adults and children as changed little over the last 40 years.
Low-income women suffer evictions and violence in Canada’s most “livable” cities.
The election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico could bring about stable change in a country marked by violence and social polarization.
Laws in Mauritius allow minors to marry while some cultures on the island are tolerant of child marriage.
South Africa has made significant progress with some of the sustainable development goal targets. But with others its lagging far behind.
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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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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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Director of the Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families and Children, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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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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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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Senior Research Specialist, Human Sciences Research Council
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Professor of Economics, University of Copenhagen
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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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Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
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Professor of Development Economics, Monash University
