Practise what you preach? How cash transfers remove power from people in poverty
by Roeland Hemsteede Cash transfer programmes that provide a small but meaningful amount of money to poor and vulnerable householdsContinue Reading
Author: Keetie Roelen
Episode #3: Poverty (measurement) is political – Andrew Fischer
Poverty measurement is political with choices about indicators and thresholds being grounded in values and norms about what it meansContinue Reading
Coronavirus and poverty: what do the numbers say?
by Keetie Roelen As we are passing the peak of the pandemic in many countries, many of us are startingContinue Reading
Episode #2: Coronavirus and poverty, and how we are not all equal in the face of a pandemic
At the height of this global health crisis, we hear that coronavirus does not discriminate and that we are allContinue Reading
Coronavirus and poverty: we can’t fight one without tackling the other
by Keetie Roelen A pandemic like COVID-19 lays bare structural inequalities across the world with the poorest and most marginalisedContinue Reading
Episode #1: All together in dignity – Diana Skelton
Shame and stigma are common denominators in the experience of poverty worldwide. Addressing poverty requires co-creation of knowledge and formulationContinue Reading
Words do matter
by Keetie Roelen Last week I attended an inspiring and thought-provoking event in London entitled ‘Changing the Way We TalkContinue Reading