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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Lately, I have been working on a book chapter, which focuses on poverty myths. One of the aspects that the chapter examines is the claim that poverty in rich countries is relative. I have had firsthand experience of this claim in our study of poverty in Brunei Darussalam, a rich country in Southeast Asia. Through …
Many people, most of them Bruneians, with whom I interacted at the onset of and during fieldwork undertaken for our poverty study (described here), held the belief that the nature of poverty in Brunei is unique and relative. They stated that views of what poverty is in Brunei are different from those in other countries. …
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