High rural poverty rates are driven largely by fuel and transport costs.
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A ‘learning journey’ research process exposed a broad group of participants to local realities of the food system and childcare in a small town.
Boosting income support payments beyond their current austere levels remains a crucial pillar of policy for governments genuinely committed to reducing persistent disadvantage.
Drug abuse among women farmers in Adamawa State, north east Nigeria, is rising.
Interventions with good intentions aren’t always fruitful.
Perhaps this crisis will focus minds on the problems caused by neglecting rural areas.
Why poverty line data do not capture the ability of Tanzanians to build relatively good houses.
From Santiago and La Paz to Beirut and Jakarta, many of the cities now gripped by protest share a common problem: They’ve grown too much, too fast.
Although still hugely popular in rural areas, we found that there is little or no support from the government to develop the local brew industry because it’s viewed as unhygienic and hard to tax.
Non-Timber Forest Products don’t often feature in discussions about poverty reduction and alleviation.
The appointment of women into positions of power can break stereotypes and inspire girls.
Having an envoy for drought and a prime minister keen to visit drought-affected areas puts the government under pressure to do the wrong thing.
Statistics suggest that the fight against poverty is far from being won in Kenya.
Even if policies could be found to bind new immigrants to regional areas, workers’ movements would continue to weaken the long-run impact on regional populations and economies.
It could make women agents of change and development in Southeast Asia.
The number of new HIV-positive cases has sharply declined – in most parts of the country. Nonurban areas, particularly in the South, are showing sharp increases. Why?
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Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Economic Geography, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney
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Professor, Centre of Policy Studies and the Impact Project, Victoria University
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Professorial Fellow and Deputy Director (Research), HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
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Director of the Sheffield Institute for International Development, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Planning, Newcastle University, Newcastle University
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Associate Professor, Political Science, Georgia State University
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Research Fellow in Non-Traditional Security Studies at RSIS, Nanyang Technological University
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Adjunct Professor, Stellenbosch University
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Senior Researcher in Development Economics, Chr. Michelsen Institute
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Research Fellow, Tegemeo Institute, Egerton University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Maryland
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Professor of African American studies, University of Maryland
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Senior Lecturer/Researcher, University of Rwanda
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Co-Director Sustainable Futures in Africa (SFA) Network (Funded by Scottish Funding Council and allocated to the University of Glasgow), Consultant based at CANGO in Eswatini and Co-Founder -Abundance, University of Glasgow
