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Tag: poverty

  • Don’t Fall in Love with a Foreigner, at least if you’re poor.

    It’s official – the poorest 40% of UK citizens aren’t allowed to bring their foreign born spouses to the UK… The Supreme Court recently upheld a decision that breaks up families in which a UK spouse earns less than £18.6K and is married to someone outside of the EU. The government regards such poorer families […]

  • The Role of Non-Governmental Organisations in International Development

    There is a very wide range of non-governmental organisations (NGOs). NGOs are groups of concerned citizens who are independent of the government and business, and are thus nominally non-political and non-profit organisations. NGOs typically have charity status and raise funds through a combination of voluntary donations from the public, but also grants from governments and […]

  • Arguments Against Trade as a Strategy for Development

    Andre Gunder Frank (1971) argues that the reason trade doesn’t work for poor countries is a legacy of colonialism – before independence, the colonizing power simply took these commodities. After independence, developing societies are often still over-dependent on exporting these primary commodities, which typically have a very low market-value, and rich countries are happy to […]

  • The Millennium Development Goals – How Much Progress was Made?

    The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were adopted by 189 nations during the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000. Eight MDGs were developed which responded to the world’s main development challenges. The goals ranged from halving extreme poverty rates to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of […]

  • Trends in Global Wealth Inequality and Poverty

    Global wealth inequality is increasing, but how can we explain this, is this is a problem, and what could we do to make the world a more equal place? Trends in Global Wealth Inequality and Poverty According to the 2016 Global Wealth Report produced by Credit Suisse, wealth inequality in 2016, measured by the share of the wealthiest 1 […]

  • Wealth and Income inequality in the U.K.

    The richest 20% are 100 times wealthier than the poorest 20%, and their annual income is five times greater. This post explores statistics on wealth and income inequalities in the UK

  • Criticisms of Neoliberalism

    The three country case studies below all suggest that although neoliberal policies might promote economic development in the long run, in the case of Chile at least, there are some significant negative consequences of this pathway to development. Chile in the 1970s Boliva in the the 1990s India – Contemporary NB – If you’re here […]

  • Exploring the Experience of Poverty in the UK

    some documentaries providing qualitative evidence on the experience of poverty in the U.K.

  • The Effects of Material Deprivation on Education

    Material deprivation can be defined as the inability to afford basic resources and services such as sufficient food and heating. Material deprivation generally has a negative effect on educational achievement. Gibson and Asthana (1999) pointed out that there is a correlation between low household income and poor educational performance. There are a number of ways in which […]