Chronic Poverty Report on Growth
The Chronic Poverty Advisory Network has launched its new Chronic Poverty Report on Growth, which also includes a briefing note on ‘pathways to sustained poverty reduction: balancing growth from above and below’ The Chronic Poverty Advisory Network was originally the...
Call for Papers: Disrupting Theory, Unsettling Practice: Towards Transformative Forced Migration Scholarship and Policy
Panel proposal: IASFM18 University of Ghana, Accra, 27th – 30th July 2020 Nicole Hirt, GIGA Hamburg & Tanja R. Müller, The University of Manchester Panel Title: Forced Migration and Agency – New dynamics within and beyond the nation state In this panel we...
New evidence highlights growing urban water crisis
New research has found that in 15 major cities in the global south, almost half of all households lack access to piped utility water, affecting more than 50 million people. Access is lowest in the cities of sub-Saharan Africa, where only 22% of households receive...