Photo Credit: Commonwealth Foundation In January 1964, United States President Lyndon B. Johnson declared war on poverty, intent on achieving a ‘total victory’ or completely ending poverty in the country. Although the United States is well known for this declaration of war on poverty, it is not the only country that has done so. In …
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In May 2020, Dr Noor Hasharina Hassan (my doctoral supervisor) and I published a scholarly article on the characteristics or underlying qualities of poverty (available on open access here), adapted from the literature review of my PhD thesis. The article has garnered over 60 000 views or reads and has been cited 88 times. It …
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Photo Credit: FINANCIAL Fortune It is undeniable that the world is facing unprecedented and devastating extreme weather events, such as catastrophic cyclones and relentlessly high temperatures, as reported here and here. 2023 has been the deadliest year on record, marked as it was by extreme weather events that have wreaked havoc: thousands of lives have …
Recently, I had the incredible opportunity to contribute a chapter to a book on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (hereafter, RCEP) and development in the ASEAN region, published by Bentham Science Publishers. This book project was spearheaded by the esteemed Institute of Policy Studies at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam. The RCEP is the largest and …
Global poverty is on the rise, as I have shared here. Between 2020 and 2023, 165 million people fell into poverty. The achievement of the ‘No Poverty’ aspiration is at risk, as highlighted here, here and here. The 2030 deadline may well be missed, and we may only hope to achieve a world without poverty …
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Brunei Darussalam has a laudable ambition of Zero Poverty by 2035, set in 2008, long before the United Nations even thought of eliminating global poverty through the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. During my PhD fieldwork, I was often asked, in reference to Brunei’s Zero Poverty aspiration, whether a country could ever eliminate poverty within …
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In 2022, as I shared here, the world had over 1 billion people living in multidimensional poverty. As 2030 - the deadline for eliminating all forms of poverty - draws closer, how close are we to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 1? Having read the 2023 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report, found here, I learnt …
As Bill Gates Notes reported here, it is unlikely that the world will achieve any of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. This is cause for concern as we strive towards a better world post-2030. A few days after the Bill Gates Notes forecast, the World Bank and Partners released the 2023 Tracking SDG7: The …
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Photo credit: RuriByaku Children (0 –17 years old) are more at risk of becoming poor than adults (as reported here and here). Accordingly, they make up a large proportion of poor people globally. In 2022, for example, 50% of the 1.2 billion multidimensionally poor people from 111 countries were children. This makes child poverty a …
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Lack of access to clean cooking (cleaner fuels and efficient cookstoves) is one of humanity's greatest challenges today. The World Bank reports that 4 billion people worldwide have no access to clean cooking services. This situation is particularly dire in rural areas, where most households use unclean fuels and inefficient cookstoves. In Zimbabwe and Malawi, …
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