Photo Credit: ISGlobal Greetings from the capital city of Kenya, Nairobi, the United Nations Headquarters in Africa, the fourth headquarter of the United Nations and the only one located in the Global South. Accordingly, Nairobi is also where critical decisions to end global poverty are made. While researching the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on …
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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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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 …
Source: https://www.socialistsanddemocrats.eu/endenergypoverty In her most enlightening book, How Boards Work, Dambisa Moyo calls for corporate companies to, with the influence and guidance of their boards, constructively and methodically act to address societal and environmental concerns such as gender inequality, poverty and emissions of greenhouse gases. I found this both encouraging and refreshing. It made me …
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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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