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A new ANU computer algorithm can provide near instant answers about how to get the best bang for welfare dollars. It says we should boost Newstart and cut either pensions or family benefits.
The global poverty plot is thicker than what the World Bank would have us believe.
Less than 15% of the most disadvantaged people in Australia exit poverty from one year to the next. We need to design policy to tackle this.
We increasingly celebrate entrepreneurial self-reliance, but for disadvantaged people, the certainty of an adequate income is a fundamental foundation. It may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.
Depending on where you live, having a disability can cost thousands of additional dollars per year. Government programs often don’t account for that.
It could make women agents of change and development in Southeast Asia.
In work poverty is a sign the icy tide of capitalism is now lapping at our ankles in the global north.
Last week I joined 8,500 Australians on the charity challenge to live below the extreme poverty line, spending just $2 a day on food for five days. It was tough and my diet was far from complete.
Plans to stop universal credit payments in favour of a ‘national living wage’ will not address the long-standing poverty of many people in paid employment.
South Africa’s finance minister delivered a good mix of macro and micro-economic strategies to ensure the country survives economic uncertainty, restores confidence and achieves some growth.
A new study reveals just how tough it can be to rebuild a life after homelessness.
Reaching middle class status and sustaining it into retirement is a major challenge. The key is to live within your means.
A review of South Africa’s methodology to measure poverty shows that 60% of people in the country are poor. This is way higher than the figures that are usually quoted.
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.
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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