Resources for a Better Future: Development
By Vandana, Uneven Earth
For development to truly deliver on its promise—the betterment of life for all—it must engage a multidimensional understanding of poverty.
Tag: poverty
We Can’t Grow Our Way Out of Poverty
By Jason Hickel, New Internationalist
We can end poverty, right now, without any additional aggregate economic growth at all. The key here is to recognize that we don’t live in a poor world. On the contrary, we live in an incredibly rich world. Global poverty is a product not of any actual scarcity, but rather of the systematic creation of artificial scarcity.
Climate Change, Poverty and Human Rights: An Emergency without Precedent
By Lisa Benjamin, Meinhard Doelle, Sara L. Seck, The Conversation
The devastating impacts of climate change on those already living in poverty are increasingly difficult or impossible to avoid. Given the failure of many states to meet their own obligations, it is crucial that the responsibility of businesses to respect human rights be taken seriously by those advocating for climate action.
A Response to Noah Smith about Global Poverty
By Jason Hickel, Jason Hickel blog
The debate about global poverty is important. But our collective understanding of this matter will only be served by intellectually honest and sincere engagement with the arguments at hand.
How Bad is Global Inequality, Really?
By Jason Hickel, Jason Hickel blog
All of this makes it clear who the real beneficiaries of globalization have been. And suddenly it seems a bit absurd to be touting as “progress” the pennies that have trickled down to the poorest when the overwhelming majority of new income since 1980 has been captured at the top.
A Response to the Global Poverty Debate
By Jason Hickel, Jason Hickel blog
Last week Vox published an article on the global poverty debate. The piece – by journalist Dylan Matthews – raises a few issues that I think are worth addressing. I set out nine brief points here, responding to specific quotes from the article.
A Response to Max Roser: How Not to Measure Global Poverty
By Jason Hickel, Jason Hickel blog
We don’t need to be afraid of this critique just because it threatens a long-familiar story. What we need is to tell better, more accurate stories. That’s how science progresses.
A Letter to Steven Pinker about Global Poverty
By Jason Hickel, Jason Hickel blog
We can end poverty right now simply by making the rules of our global economy fairer for the world’s majority (I describe how we can do this in The Divide, looking at everything from wages to debt to trade). But that is an approach that you and Gates seem desperate to avoid, in favour of a blustering defense of the status quo.
Debating Population, Poverty and Development
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
So while there’s much to be said for population control, I think the notion that population control is the most important precursor to economic development and environmental protection is problematic.
The Moral Egregiousness of Poverty is Worse than Ever Before in History
By Jason Hickel, Jason Hickel blog
We live in an age where more than 4 billion people – some 60% of the human population – live on less than what is required for meeting basic human needs. This is a ringing indictment of the global economy by any standard.
Democracy Now Interview Rev. William Barber, Co-Chair of the Poor Peoples’ Campaign
By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now
The release of the U.N. report on extreme poverty in the United States comes amid a nationwide, weeks-long direct action campaign known as the new Poor People’s Campaign, aimed at fighting poverty and racism in the United States.
Do the Global Poor Care about Climate Change?
By Tegan Tallulah, The Climate Lemon
Looking into this has made me even more convinced that tackling global poverty has to be done in tandem with tackling climate change. They are intricately connected. I think it’s important that we remember climate change is a historical injustice: the poorest countries suffer the worst impacts yet have done least to cause it and have the least capacity to address it.