What is the state of Child Poverty in Zimbabwe? 

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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The problem with the $2.15 (formerly $1.90)-a-day international definition of extreme poverty

On the 24th of December 2022, I watched, for the second time, the living on a dollar a day documentary, which provides invaluable insights into what it means to live on less than a dollar day, which how extreme poverty was defined during the Millennium Development Goals era. Today, the World Bank defines extreme poverty …

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What is the state of poverty in the world?

Poverty, as shared in our article here, is one of the defining challenges of our time. Governments, NGOs and other actors are committed to eliminating poverty, and they take stock of their poverty eradication efforts annually on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (17 October), as I recently blogged here. For this reason, …

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No poverty in our lifetime: is this possible?

https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal1 The primary goal of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDG1) is to end poverty in all forms everywhere. This implies that no single person in any part of the world should be, in any way, poor at any point during our lifetime. Is this actually possible, one might ask? The responses to this …

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