Episode #11: Poverty, politics and activism – Tabitha Morton
A dominant narrative within politics and media in the UK and elsewhere is that for one group to gain, anotherContinue Reading
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Episode #10: Two stories of poverty in the UK – Daniel Edmiston
There is a splintering among those living in poverty with those in ‘deep poverty’ having lost the most in theContinue Reading
Episode #9: Social protection response to Covid-19
Social protection and other forms of social security and welfare support have seen a large and rapid expansion across theContinue Reading
Episode #8: Food banks: plugging the gaps in the welfare system
Are food banks a sign of the ‘big society’ coming together to help its vulnerable members? Or are they aContinue Reading
Episode #7: Behavioural science: a cure for poverty? – Saugato Datta
Struggling to make ends meet reduces mental head space and makes it harder to make long-term decisions. Applying behavioural scienceContinue Reading
Episode #6: Multidimensional poverty in 2020: a double-sided picture – Sabina Alkire
Many countries were on track to half multidimensional poverty by 2030, but Covid-19 will lead to a reversal of trendsContinue Reading
Episode #5: Poor people are not ‘damaged goods’ – Martin Burt
Eliminating poverty requires the empowerment of people to understand their own poverty and find solutions for it. Agency and self-efficacyContinue Reading
Episode #4: Shifting the blame and shame of poverty – Mary O’Hara
Blaming and shaming people in poverty has a long history in the UK and the US and is woven intoContinue Reading
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
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
