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
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Off-grid energy and its implications for poverty
by Rasec Niembro Near 600 million individuals in Sub-Saharan Africa – around 66% of the population – live without gridContinue 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
Coronavirus, mental health and poverty: a ‘triple whammy’
Covid-19 is not merely a physical health crisis but also has widespread adverse effects on mental health. The many uncertaintiesContinue 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
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
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?
As we are passing the peak of the pandemic in many countries, many of us are starting to look ahead.Continue 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
A pandemic like COVID-19 lays bare structural inequalities across the world with the poorest and most marginalised bearing the bruntContinue Reading
