In Europe, where you start in life still largely shapes where you end up. Yet, European policies too often fail to address the structural barriers that lock young people into disadvantage. Without ...

Chronic poverty in the developing world can seem like an insoluble problem. But a long-term study from Bangladesh co-authored by an MIT economist presents a very different picture: When rural poor ...

Bangladesh is a country of over 176 million people. It is still far away from rising above the poverty trap. The World Bank’s ...

Some say that if a person opposes social programs, like I do, he or she is selfish and has no regard for the less fortunate. While I am certainly selfish at times, I care about others a lot. In fact, ...

Susan St John is affiliated with the Child Poverty Action Group. With a National-led coalition government taking shape (how long it takes is another matter), the nation’s “squeezed middle” awaits the ...

Previous research suggests that economy-wide poverty traps are rarely observed in the data. In this paper, we explore a related hypothesis: low-income countries rarely improve their position relative ...

I attended the Salem Human Rights Coalition meeting on Tuesday, March 7, which included Veronica Faustino’s presentation of The Poverty Trap. Ms. Faustino shared that the experience of poverty is not ...

In this chat with reporters, Senior Special Adviser on Industrialisation to the President of African Development Bank, Prof. Oyebanji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, explains fundamental structural issues ...

Hanna Wilberg has collaborated with advocacy organisations such as Auckland Action Against Poverty to help people on benefits. The National Party’s pledge to apply sanctions to unemployed people ...