Improving childhood outcomes – is cash enough?
by Madison Little and Keetie Roelen In short: it depends… Providing parents with cash is now common practice across theContinue Reading
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Episode #19: The Social Guarantee – meeting the universal need to thrive
Giving people access to the things they need and ensuring there is a basic level of life’s essentials that noContinue Reading
Persistent poverty – what we say matters
by Keetie Roelen With Covid-19 shining a spotlight on persistent and worsening poverty in many places around the world, weContinue Reading
Episode #18: Millennials, a generation of frustrated aspirations – Thomas Rochow
Secure employment and affordable housing: the two most desired goals of many millennials in the UK. Yet so often theyContinue Reading
How negative life events impact aspirations of people in poverty
by Maheshwar Pratap Over 150 million people are expected to fall into poverty in 2021 as a result of theContinue Reading
Episode #17: Aspirations and poverty – a double-edged sword
Aspirations inspire individuals to become more economically and politically involved, but living in poverty often hampers such aspirations. Efforts toContinue Reading
Impatiently waiting for dignity in international development
by Tom Wein When it comes to an ethic of dignity in international development, Western arbiters are playing catch up.Continue Reading
Episode #16: Faith and empathy in community work – coming together to tackle poverty
Interfaith collaboration has enormous potential to mobilise community resources and foster a shared sense of humanity and respect. Working withContinue Reading
Programming to end poverty: insights from a practitioner
by Sudarshan Neupane In the last 10+ years, I had the privilege of working as a development worker in geographicallyContinue Reading
Episode #15: Navigating Japan’s social hierarchies and migrant hostilities – Dreux Richard
Japan is a hard place to be poor, and even more so as an immigrant. Many of the country’s NigerianContinue Reading
