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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.

Who Hosts? The Correlates of Hosting the Internally Displaced

Posted Sep 10, 2024| by Household in Conflict Network

Tens of millions of individuals are displaced due to violence, and most are hosted by other households in their home countries. In their paper for the Household in Conflict Network Peter van der Windt, Leonid Peisakhin and Nik Stoop discuss what leads people to host... Read More

What is Overpopulation? Causes, Effects, and Solutions

Posted on Aug 08, 2024 | in category: Reducing poverty and improving equity | by Population Media Center

The world’s population is still increasing in large annual increments (about 80 million per year), and the supply of vital non-renewable resources is being exhausted. Many factors contribute to these unsustainable trends, including falling mortality rates, underutilized contraception, and a lack of education for girls... Read More

New Estimates of the Cost of Ending Poverty

Posted on Aug 01, 2024 | in category: Reducing poverty and improving equity | by Global Policy

To end extreme poverty and absolute monetary poverty worldwide by 2030, would cost about $70 and $325 billion per year, Andy Sumner and Arief Anshory Yusuf suggest in their Global Policy article. Their estimates of the monetary value of transfers needed to end poverty translates... 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

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 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

Escaping the Deterrence Trap: Key Building Blocks for a Better Migration System

Posted on Aug 06, 2024 | in category: Reducing poverty and improving equity | by Robert Bosch Foundation

The growing numbers of asylum seekers and irregular migrants are straining asylum and reception capacities, and in many countries, demographic changes and labor shortages have created infilled immigration needs. The dominant narratives and policy measures in many countries of the Global North have returned to... Read More