Fieldwork in Southeast Asia, 2016: Engaging with lived experiences A world free of poverty remains a distant aspiration, since we are off track to meet the “No Poverty” target by 2030. Does that mean, then, that we are losing the war on poverty? Certainly not. Ending poverty within our lifetime remains possible, as I shared …
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Reading the scholarly article ‘Administering and encountering the poor: Poverty from the above and below in Brunei Darussalam’ – authored by one of my PhD Supervisors, Dr Noor Hasharina Hassan and others – reminded me of the intriguing workshops we had in 2011-12 with Professor Robert Chambers at the Institute of Development Studies, University of …
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 …
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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https://www.facebook.com/annajatshoppingmall/photos/pcb.423416298203764/423416171537110/ Brunei is determined to attain a zero-poverty status by 2035 and is making significant strides towards this goal (see my earlier blog post here on this issue). Through various initiatives, Bruneian NGOs, such as BANTU Services, SCOT and MKM (Majlis Kesejahteraan Masyarakat), and individual families are supporting the government in its efforts to realise …
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Since 2015, I have been involved in conducting poverty/quality of life studies and designing poverty eradication programmes in Brunei Darussalam, Southeast Asia. Thus far, I have observed that Brunei is making significant strides in eradicating poverty. The incidence of poverty in the country is quite low, according to the 2010 Brunei Darussalam Millennium Development Report, …
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Greetings, I am pleased to share my latest publication(Book review): Hajah Rose Binti Abdullah, Poverty and Microfinance in Brunei Darussalam. Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25166026211015486
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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On the 20th of January 2012, I attended the launch of the book: Seasonality, Rural Livelihoods and Development, at the Institute of Development Studies of the University of Sussex. Robert Chambers, a torchbearer in the international development profession, was one of the panelists there. A copy of the book was presented to me as a …
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Background Brunei, affectionately known as the Abode of Peace, is a high-income country on the Island of Borneo in Southeast Asia with a GDP of USD 13.5 billion (2019 estimates). It has a high Human Development Index of 0.838 (2020 estimates), which implies that Bruneians enjoy a high standard of living. By 2035, Brunei aspires …
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