Reading the 2025 Child Poverty in Australia report, I found myself wondering: How often do we actually talk about children living in poverty? Certainly nowhere near as much as we should! Too often, in fact, children in poverty remain on the margins, both within academic research and in practice. Granted, there are studies on child …
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Global poverty remains stubbornly persistent. The just-released 2025 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report delivers a hard truth: the world is losing the war on poverty. In previous years, as I blogged earlier here, the number of people living in acute multidimensional poverty has hovered above 1 billion, and nothing much has changed today: 1.1 …
In my efforts to contribute to poverty eradication, I have heard stories of large sums of money being given to the poor and considerable support for livelihoods as a strategy for eradicating poverty. I have also witnessed significant investments in education, which is regarded as a key solution to poverty. I have observed, too, many …
As I was exploring the potential focus for my MA thesis, I had the opportunity to consult with Professor Robert Chambers to discuss my ideas and get his insights on them. What was foremost on my mind was the issue of seasonal poverty or seasonality, prompted by Robert Chamber's work on the topic, the discussions …
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Photo credit: Youth Off The Streets Australia In February 2024, the Australian Parliament published a report entitled "The Extent and Nature of Poverty in Australia". This report sheds light on the levels, realities, drivers and impacts of poverty within the country and provides, among other things, recommendations for poverty eradication. The Parliament’s efforts are commendable, …
Continue reading Poverty in Australia: My Observations from the 2024 Australian Poverty Report
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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