Poverty in Australia: My Observations from the 2024 Australian Poverty Report

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, …

10 (Sure) Ways of Losing the War on Poverty

Photo Credit: Commonwealth Foundation In January 1964, United States President Lyndon B. Johnson declared war on poverty, intent on achieving a ‘total victory’ or completely ending poverty in the country.  Although the United States is well known for this declaration of war on poverty, it is not the only country that has done so.  In …

The story behind our poverty scholarly article with 40 000+ views

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 40 000 views or reads and has been cited 55 times. It …

Why is COP28 crucial not only for tackling climate change but also for poverty eradication?

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 …

What will the future of poverty eradication look like?

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 …

What does the 2023 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index report reveal about global poverty?

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 …

What is the state of poverty in the world?

Poverty, as shared in our article here, is one of the defining challenges of our time. Governments, NGOs and other actors are committed to eliminating poverty, and they take stock of their poverty eradication efforts annually on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (17 October), as I recently blogged here. For this reason, …

Why is 17 October such a momentous day for poverty eradication?

Source: https://unrcca.unmissions.org/secretary-general-message-international-day-eradication-poverty Today is 17 October, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.  This day has a long tradition. It was first marked on 17 October 1987, when thousands of people gathered at the Trocadero in Paris to honour people affected by extreme poverty, violence and hunger. Since then, countries, international development organisations and …

No poverty in our lifetime: is this possible?

https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal1 The primary goal of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDG1) is to end poverty in all forms everywhere. This implies that no single person in any part of the world should be, in any way, poor at any point during our lifetime. Is this actually possible, one might ask? The responses to this …