Teenage pregnancy makes visible the pressures, relationships and reproductive conditions that shape young people’s lives across southern Africa.
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More than 15,000 families in Michigan have received cash support from Rx Kids. Participants say the program helps them pay bills and maintain their health.
New research reveals how the visa someone arrives on shapes whether their first ten years are secure or spent in poverty.
People living on the streets often have no GP and struggle with unmet health needs.
Research on absenteeism often focuses on factors like unreliable transportation, overlooking what schools themselves can do to help kids maintain a steady attendance record.
For the poorest households in Asia, even small loans can lead to expensive debt traps.
Automated systems need to be watched carefully to ensure they are in fact operating in the public interest.
Crises that add up on top of each other have to be addressed in an integrated way.
Anti-immigration critics seized on the Ceuta migrant situation as evidence of the failure of soft policies, but in reality the bloc has become far more restrictionist in the past decade.
The city of Detroit has hired a senior director of retail attraction to bring national and regional chains into the city.
Programmes to address transactional sex need to be customised. The drivers change from country to country.
A one-size-fits-all approach won’t work to revive Britain’s left-behind areas.
Some parts of the world are warming far faster than other, but even within the same city some neighbourhoods are exposed and suffer more than others.
Microbiomes influence how efficiently a child’s body extracts and uses nutrients from food for growth and development.
Eroding the gains made in education has severe consequences, especially for girls.
Opponents of guaranteed-income programs often argue that recipients will simply take the money and be less motivated to do any work whatsoever.
Data show that South Africans have become more hostile towards immigrants.
Economic conditions for ordinary Mozambicans are deteriorating. Poverty has risen, public services are unreliable and there are few decent job opportunities.
Nigeria’s government must invest in digital infrastructure to reduce corruption in its budget.
Colorado’s minimum wage has increased, but not nearly enough to cover the rising cost of food.
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Economics & Business, Allegheny College
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Director of the Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families and Children, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, Sol Plaatje University
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Distinguished Research Fellow, Human Sciences Research Council
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Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City St George's, University of London
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Senior Research Fellow, World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), United Nations University
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DSTI/NRF Research Chair in Welfare and Social Development, University of Johannesburg
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Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Economics, Fordham University
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Professor of Economics, University of Copenhagen