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MPs will vote Monday on a welfare bill which imagines a world where work is a gilded path away from poverty.
Communities must be involved if technology and innovations designed to alleviate poverty are to be effective.
While still host to some of the world’s most unequal countries, Latin America is making strides where Europe and the US are falling behind.
As more foreign aid starts going to higher education, developing countries need to be careful about the direction of travel for their universities.
After months of speculation, we now know how the Chancellor plans to save £12bn from the welfare budget.
Why does suburban drug dealing tend to skirt the rampant violence of inner-city drug dealing?
For over 500 years, the drug has been associated with racism and poverty.
With 17% of children living in poverty in the UK, the government wants to change the way it’s defined.
For some people receiving SNAP benefits, real luxury would be a kitchen in which to cook.
Increased internet connectivity can spur economic growth throughout Africa. But the continent has a long way to go before it can reap any broadband dividend.
There is no one perfect package for alleviating poverty, but there is agreement on what the elements should be. Combination and sequence of interventions varies, depending on context and beneficiaries.
Despite progress in lifting people above poverty lines around the world, the picture is bleaker for people at the very bottom of the ladder. They have largely missed out on the gains of recent decades.
African economic history has had a renaissance and its most valuable contribution has been to show that Africans have not always been poor, nor are current poverty levels an inevitable destiny.
Science has had a crucial role in helping to meet the targets of the Millennium Development Goals. But there’s much more to do.
Despite having a black police commissioner and mayor, Baltimore has become the latest focus of African-American anger at racist policing.
The fashionistas aren’t flocking there yet but things are happening in Brick City – especially when it comes to education policy.
Mixed-income housing has been promoted as a panacea to concentrated poverty and crime. But recent research raises some red flags.
The opportunity gap between well-off and poor American children is vast and, more alarmingly still, it is growing. Some political leaders are starting to take note of the grim consequences.
Robert Putnam’s new book aims to make the social inequality a core issue in the 2016 campaign: a member of his research team explains how.
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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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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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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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Director of the Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families and Children, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Distinguished Research Fellow, Human Sciences Research Council
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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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Chair professor, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
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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 Michigan
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Senior Director, Transformation Strategies Department, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), CGIAR System Organization
