Britons divide sharply over whether exclusion from ordinary living standards counts as poverty.
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An economist proposes a new method of estimating the scope of poverty in different countries.
Former prime minister Bob Hawke regretted saying: ‘By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty’. But his broken promise still had a surprising impact.
Some estimates say up to one in seven people are living in poverty, but Australia doesn’t properly measure it. Here’s how we could.
Boosting education and skills training as well as improving transport and strengthening social protection would help people out of extreme poverty.
The government, because it takes the lead in implementing official policies, is in a unique position to collect and store sensitive data collected over long periods of time.
Ontario must seize the promise of Canada-wide early learning and child-care funding before it becomes another missed opportunity.
South Africa’s social relief grant has enabled recipients to search for work or start small businesses.
The study provides reason for optimism about the effects of minimum wage policies on poverty.
Low-income mothers with infants are struggling with food insecurity, which can lead to long-term health impacts for both mothers and children.
Canada’s official poverty measure only focuses on income and ignores other important factors, meaning there are millions of Canadians living in poverty that are ignored by the measure.
Why the government’s main measure of poverty doesn’t tell us much about the lowest-income people.
Millions of Americans struggle to pay their bills each month, despite earning wages well above the federal poverty line and holding multiple jobs.
An estimated 540,000 Australians didn’t have paid work ahead of lockdown, so missed out on COVID-19 support this year. They’ve been left to live on $44 a day — well below the poverty line.
Newer measures of poverty may do a better job of counting America’s poor, which is necessary to helping them.
Nigeria needs more industrial production, foreign and domestic investment, not just handouts.
The most stressed are Australians on JobSeeker and single parents.
With cuts to JobKeeper and JobSeeker set to bite, Social Services Minister Anne Ruston has cast doubt over the idea of a poverty line.
JobKeeper and the COVID Supplement to JobSeeker benefits will be gone in a week. The combined effect will be to halve some recipients’ incomes and the rent they can afford.
It’s evident from research that while health influences economic well-being, the inverse is also true, economic well-being influences health.
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Associate Professor, POLIS@ANU Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Reader in Applied Social Research, King's College London
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Assistant Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam
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Professor of Economics and inaugural Edmond D. Villani Chair of Economics, Georgetown University
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Research Fellow in Non-Traditional Security Studies at RSIS, Nanyang Technological University
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Dean, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, Stellenbosch University
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Professor, Urban Housing and Homelessness, RMIT University
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Director UCL International Disability Research Centre, UCL
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, RMIT University Vietnam
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PhD candidate in Economics, UMass Amherst
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Professor, School of Health Sciences, University of Newcastle
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Professorial Associate in the Centre for Public Policy, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Social Policy, Lancaster University
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UCT Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Scholar; Director of ARUA's African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research within SALDRU., University of Cape Town
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Assistant Professor, Black Hills State University, Fordham University