The FutureWorld Foundation

Partners

World News

While we have particular views on many issues on the Global Agenda, and have commissioned and will continue to promote research into questions affecting these, we are also conscious of the valuable work being done by many other institutions and researchers, some of whom have decades of experience in grappling with aspects of these challenging topics.

In this section of the site – Other Voices – by far the largest of all, we offer a wide cross-section of views and insights.

The Power of Education Policy

Posted Mar 17, 2025| by International Monetary Fund

Education has been and can continue to be at the center of global poverty reduction, Amory Gethin emphasises in this IMF publication. The proportion of the world’s population living below the international poverty line of $2.15 a day dropped from 44 percent in 1981 to... Read More

JUBILEE 2025: The New Global Debt Crisis and its Solutions

Posted on Feb 11, 2025 | in category: Reducing poverty and improving equity | by Catholic Agency for Overseas Development

Economic shocks triggered by the COVID pandemic and war in Ukraine have pushed dozens of low-income countries into debt distress since 2020. Today, more than 50 countries - or one in four countries globally - are in debt crisis. This number has more than doubled... Read More

Tackling Unemployment in Sub-Saharan Africa with Evidence: Launching the Jobs and Entrepreneurship in Africa Portfolio

Posted on Feb 03, 2025 | in category: Reducing poverty and improving equity | by Abdul Latif Poverty Action Lab

Roughly one-third of Africa’s 420 million youth, aged 15–35, are out of work and have stopped looking for jobs, another third have unstable employment, and only a small fraction – about one in six – have secure, stable, salaried positions. Sub-Saharan Africa’s population is also... Read More

From Poverty to Prosperity: Assessing of Sustainable Poverty Reduction Effect of “Welfare-to-Work” in Chinese Counties

Posted on Aug 13, 2024 | in category: Reducing poverty and improving equity | by Springer Nature

The “welfare-to-work” program is a comprehensive supportive policy in China’s 14th five-year plan period. Based on the data at the county (city) level in China from 2000 to 2019 and sustainable development theory, a county-relative poverty evaluation system was constructed. All 832 impoverished counties across... Read More

Access for Domestic Workers to Labour and Social Protection

Posted on Mar 04, 2025 | in category: Reducing poverty and improving equity | by European Social Policy Analysis Network

This report by the European Social Policy Analysis Network (ESPAN) covers 34 European countries: the 27 EU Member States and 7 (potential) candidate countries. It provides for each country a mapping of the domestic work sector and an assessment of the extent to which domestic... Read More

The Digitalisation of Social Protection in Africa: The Perspective of Marginalised Workers

Posted on Sep 05, 2024 | in category: Reducing poverty and improving equity | by IDS Research Report

The right to decent work, including social protection, is guaranteed to all citizens in multiple African and international human rights and labour rights conventions. Becky Faith and Tony Roberts suggest in their IDS Research Report that the digitalisation of social protection promised to increase the... Read More

From Crisis to Resilience: The Role of Inclusive Finance in Fragile Countries

Posted on Aug 15, 2024 | in category: Reducing poverty and improving equity | by Consultative Group to Assist the Poor

According to the OECD, fragile countries are falling further behind their ‘nonfragile’ peers in measures of poverty and financial inclusion. By 2030, 26 percent of the world’s population and 86 percent of the world’s lowest income people are likely to be living in fragile countries... Read More