Old-Age Poverty

In the half-century since I wrote the essay below, as part of a cover story on “The Politics of Sex,” there has been some definite progress. “Women’s issues” are no longer in a silo but are understood as fundamental to everything. For instance, the single biggest determinant of whether a…

When did the word ‘fat’ stop being a description of someone’s body and start to become their identity?Being fat is now a choice that should be celebrated — a characteristic that deserves respect from others.To suggest otherwise — that, for example, being overweight is a fundamentally unhealthy state and might…

Ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March, find out about the economic inequalities that continue to persist between women and men in the EU. This year marks 25 years since the adoption of the UN’s Beijing Declaration aimed at the advancement of women around the globe, the 10th anniversary…

As the new school year kicked off in South Africa at the end of January, millions of young people were flocking the streets looking for opportunities. Those who just received their matric (or high school) results were standing in long lines to secure limited spaces at universities or colleges, recent…

When it comes to economic development, positive change is typically gradual and only noticeable over long periods of time; by contrast negative developments—economic crises—are often rapid and spectacular. This creates a biased narrative that focuses on negative news, while positive trends go unnoticed because they are less dramatic. Amid an…

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SUPPLIEDSpend My Super erected an installation of 160 pictures of babies at Britomart, Auckland, to highlight the problem of children born into poverty.A campaign encouraging wealthy superannuitants to donate their pension to combat child poverty has met with a backlash online. Spend My Super erected an installation of 160 pictures…

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There is growing awareness by the international development community and national governments that the local sphere of government is in the best position to facilitate the mobilisation of the Sustainable Development Goals. Here Mohammad Tarikul Islam (Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh) explains how engaging local development stakeholders can help Bangladesh reach its development goals.…