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South Africa must benchmark its education policies against high-income countries, if it wants to become one, and not measure its performance against its peers.
Book sheds new light on the evolution of the economic policy of the African National Congress, South Africa’s governing party.
The study confirms that collecting water for daily use weighs more heavily on women, making life more difficult for especially older women.
Bappenas conducted a simulation to predict how COVID-19 will impact poverty in Indonesia. Without intervention, the pandemic will drag at least 3.6 million Indonesians into poverty by the end of 2020.
COVID19 threatens to reverse years of Indonesia’s positive trends in poverty alleviation. We highlight lessons from past policies to prevent another poverty hike during the pandemic.
The policy and law applying to refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa is largely progressive. But, in practice, they continue to endure hardship and unfair treatment by officials.
Social distancing has made giving to the poor – an obligation under Islam – harder this Ramadan. Meanwhile Muslim nonprofits are feeling the strain of the economic downturn.
Study presents a model that can be scaled to improve learning outcomes and transition rates for young people living in urban informal settlements.
The ability of food banks to meet the needs of food insecure Canadians has plummeted just when it is needed most. But food banks have never been able to address the reason people are going hungry.
A ban on begging in northern Nigeria is not the solution to a region dealing with intense levels of poverty.
Economic distress was the norm for many before the coronavirus outbreak. The pandemic is an opportunity to provide an economically secure future for all.
Despite the poverty rate falling, 30.8% of children are still undernourished.
From burial sites targeted by grave robbers to disposing of ashes at sea, the job of disposing of the unclaimed dead has a rich history. Sadly, it still goes on today and is on the rise.
Police officers are integral front-line workers during this extraordinary crisis. They should be empowered to act as protectors of the vulnerable, not as persecutors of homeless people.
The patronage system – common in South-East Asia’s small-scale fisheries – indirectly perpetuates destructive fishing practices. However, opportunities exist to tap them as agents of change.
More needs to be done to cushion low-income families from the economic effects of the new coronavirus.
One of the key economic mitigating measures put in place after the country’s COVID-19 lockdown has had very little uptake by employers and will leave miillions of workers without any cover.
Preliminary results of new research show how using data from social networks such as Facebook may help us understand how the coronavirus spread on local and regional levels.
When restricting the movement of their citizens to slow down the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, low income countries should tailor measures to local socio-economic circumstances.
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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
