Poverty
Pandemic tips more people into extreme poverty in Nigeria's Lagos
Before the pandemic, nearly half of Nigeria's 200 million people were living on less than $1.90 a day, rivalling India for the world's highest number of poor.
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Warmer world linked to poor pregnancy results: study
Such outcomes - closely linked to poverty, especially in the tropics - will likely increase with global warming, especially during more frequent and intense heatwaves, they reported in BMJ, a medical journal.
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Current policies bring little change in SA's poverty & inequality levels - study
A study conducted by the NDA and the University of Johannesburg has found that policy documents intended to eradicate poverty were not in short supply.
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Pandemic could push 115 mn into extreme poverty in 2020: World Bank
And the bank's new report estimates that by 2021, 150 million could be living below the extreme poverty threshold of less than $1.90 a day.
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ANALYSIS: How social security could make life better in SA after COVID-19
Emergency relief measures were operational for six months and are due to end soon. But the impacts of COVID-19 will be felt long after.
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Poverty, joblessness drives wildlife poaching in South Africa: study
A report published and compiled after interviews with 73 convicted wildlife offenders in SA's jails concluded that 70% of them were forced into crime to make a living.
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YONELA DIKO: Urbanisation of poverty & lasting solutions to land invasion
No wealth is worth excluding millions of citizens from their natural right to land, writes Yonela Diko.
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Centre of Excellence in Food Security discusses COVID impact on the vulnerable
Panellists looked at safety nets and how social emergency relief measures performed in the face of the global pandemic.
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Mouse to go: Rodent kebabs fill empty stomachs in virus-hit Malawi
Malnutrition and food insecurity are perennial issues in the small, landlocked nation, where more than half of the population live below the poverty line.
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Virus means at least a 5-year hit to South Africa GDP: UN
The UNDP said GDP would decline by 7.9% this year due to the pandemic and "recover slowly through 2024", in a socio-economic impact assessment study released on Monday.
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ANALYSIS: How the lockdown has affected the health of SA’s poor
Low-income populations bear a disproportionately higher burden of poor health.
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Face of poverty in SA continues to be a rural African woman - Dlamini-Zuma
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said that research showed that African women had been hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown.
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Hard lockdown has allowed unemployment, hunger & poverty to take root - Winde
Western Cape Premier Alan Winde acknowledged that the interventions taken to slow the spread of COVID-19 had led to other serious issues of unemployment, hunger and increasing levels of poverty.
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ANALYSIS: Better food price controls needed to shield poor from COVID-19 fallout
There needs to be an urgent expansion of price controls, as well as an inquiry into the price-setting of major retailers.
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SA’s young people still face unemployment and poverty
While the country enjoys the privileges for which many, including the youth of 1976 sacrificed, young people in 2020 are faced with major struggles of their own, accounting for 63% of the unemployed.
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ANALYSIS: Who has been hit hardest by SA’s lockdown?
The net effect is that the shocks are most severe on poorer, more vulnerable households.
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ANALYSIS: How SA can balance control of COVID-19 and avoid economic disaster
South Africa's management of the COVID-19 pandemic must now shift from a centrally regulated approach to one that enables participation and compliance by communities, workers and businesses.
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ANALYSIS: COVID-19 and why South Africa needs a wealth tax now
A wealth tax is in line with the recommendations recently made by the International Monetary Fund to equitably attain fiscal sustainability and better position the economy for post-COVID recovery.
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UN seeks $90 mn for Mideast children as virus deepens poverty
"The region has the biggest number of children in need in the world due to ongoing conflicts and wars," said Ted Chaiban, UNICEF director for the Middle East and North Africa, in a statement.
