Can FOOD DRIVE contribute to the eradication of poverty in Brunei Darussalam?

https://www.facebook.com/annajatshoppingmall/photos/pcb.423416298203764/423416171537110/ Brunei is determined to attain a zero-poverty status by 2035 and is making significant strides towards this goal (see my earlier blog post here on this issue). Through various initiatives, Bruneian NGOs, such as BANTU Services, SCOT and  MKM (Majlis Kesejahteraan Masyarakat), and individual families are supporting the government in its efforts to realise …

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Why should the corporate world embrace the Business Multidimensional Poverty Index? 

Source: https://www.dreamstime.com/working-poor-road-sign-message-image154482443 “Do you think that earning a high salary means that one is necessarily well off?”, one grassroots leader asked us as we carried out fieldwork for our poverty in Brunei study. In Costa Rica, Horizonte Positivo, a welfare agency, posed a similar question: “Does having a job and an income ensure that they …

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Why the unveiling of the Rural Multidimensional Poverty Index is a noteworthy achievement?   

Poverty experts, policymakers and the general public have unanimously acknowledged the significance of measuring poverty as it sheds light on who the poor are, how many they are, where they live and what their deprivations are,  as shared here and here. They have not reached a consensus, however, on how to measure poverty. For this …

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Why are Sri Lanka’s efforts to develop Child Multidimensional Poverty Index commendable?  

Hearty congratulations to Sri Lanka for pioneering the Child Multidimensional Poverty Index (Child MPI).  As described here,  the recently developed Sri Lanka Child MPI measures poverty among children aged 0-4. The tool covers four poverty dimensions and twelve corresponding deprivation indicators (Table 1). It considers a child to be multidimensionally poor if he/she is deprived …

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Why Brunei Darussalam is successfully eradicating poverty?

Since 2015, I have been involved in conducting poverty/quality of life studies and designing poverty eradication programmes in Brunei Darussalam, Southeast Asia. Thus far, I have observed that Brunei is making significant strides in eradicating poverty.  The incidence of poverty in the country is quite low,  according to the 2010 Brunei Darussalam Millennium Development Report,  …

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