9 Best Articles in 2021
The Guardian
Obsession with ending poverty is where development is going wrong| Efosa Ojomo
The Guardian
~16 min read · From 2017 · Almost all development projects focus on alleviating poverty rather than creating prosperity. This is a fundamental flaw
Our World in Data
Global poverty in an unequal world: Who is considered poor in a rich country? And what does…
Our World in Data
5 min read · Mar 5th · What does global poverty look like if we rely on the notions of poverty in countries like Denmark, the US, or Germany? And how should this perspective inform our aspirations for the future of global…
jasonhickel.org
Extreme poverty isn’t natural, it’s created
jasonhickel.org
4 min read · Mar 28th · New research questions the dominant narrative about long-term poverty trends.
Chicago Booth
How poverty changes your mind-set
Chicago Booth
~13 min read · From 2018 · Understanding psychology may be key to addressing the problem
The Guardian
A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America
The Guardian
~20 min read · From 2017 · The UN’s Philip Alston is an expert on deprivation – and he wants to know why 41m Americans are living in poverty. The Guardian joined him on a special two-week mission into the dark heart of the world’s richest nation
The Guardian
Bill Gates says poverty is decreasing. He couldn’t be more wrong
The Guardian
6 min read · From 2019 · An infographic endorsed by the Davos set presents coerced proletarianisation as a triumph, says the academic Jason Hickel
medium.com
Why Do the Poor Make Such Poor Decisions? — Utopia for Realists — Medium
medium.com
10 min read · From 2016 · Our efforts to combat poverty are often based on a misconception: that the poor must pull themselves up out of the mire. But a…
André Staltz
Software below the poverty line
André Staltz
9 min read · From 2019 · André Staltz Software below the poverty line Most people believe that open source sustainability is a difficult problem to solve. As an open source developer myself, my own perspective to this problem…
Vox
The big drop in American poverty during the pandemic, explained
Vox
10 min read · Aug 11th · The lesson from the past year: Poverty is a policy choice.
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The New York Times
When Dasani Left Home
The New York Times
20+ min read · Sep 28th · What happens when trying to escape poverty means separating from your family at 13?
CNN
Poverty rose to 11.4% in 2020 amid pandemic
CNN
4 min read · Sep 14th · Some 11.4% of Americans were in poverty last year, as the coronavirus pandemic raged across the nation, according to Census Bureau data released Tuesday. That compares to 10.5% in 2019, the lowest…
Axios
The best antidote to poverty could be cold, hard cash
Axios
3 min read · Oct 9th · Direct cash transfer charities like GiveDirectly show a quick and efficient way to respond to pandemic-related poverty
The Washington Post
Poverty fell overall in 2020 due to massive stimulus checks and unemployment aid, U.S. Census says
The Washington Post
Sep 14th · The official poverty rate rose slightly to 11.4 percent in 2020, but Census says after accounting for pandemic relief aid, the poverty rate fell to 9.1 percent.
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MIT Technology Review
The coming war on the hidden algorithms that trap people in poverty
MIT Technology Review
9 min read · 2020-12-04 · A growing group of lawyers are uncovering, navigating, and fighting the automated systems that deny the poor from housing, jobs, and basic services.
Our World in Data
Breaking out of the Malthusian trap: How pandemics allow us to understand why our ancestors lived in…
Our World in Data
~12 min read · 2020-11-26 · For much of human history there was no escape from poverty. Our ancestors were trapped in an economy in which incomes were determined by the size of the population. Productivity gains did not raise…
econofact.org
Poverty Reduction and Economic Growth
econofact.org
6 min read · May 3rd · About 1.1 billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty in the last 25 years. Broad-based growth is the most important source of poverty reduction.
NPR's Planet Money
How Poverty Makes Workers Less Productive
NPR's Planet Money
2 min read · Feb 2nd · A new study adds to the growing mountain of evidence that says that poverty impairs people's ability to think.
The Washington Post
Nearly 8 million Americans have fallen into poverty since the summer
The Washington Post
2020-12-16 · America’s poverty rate has risen at the fastest pace ever this year after aid for the unemployed declined.
Our World in Data
A history of global living conditions in 5 charts
Our World in Data
~16 min read · From 2016 · A recent survey asked “All things considered, do you think the world is getting better or worse, or neither getting better nor worse?”. In Sweden 10% thought things are getting better, in the US they were only 6%, and in Germany only 4%. Very few people think that the world is getting better.
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Aeon+Psyche
The mathematical case against blaming people for their misfortune
Aeon+Psyche
5 min read · Jan 18th · Complexity science reveals the hard limits of our predictive abilities, and makes a mathematical case for compassion
The New Yorker
The Psychology of Inequality
The New Yorker
~12 min read · From 2018 · Researchers find that much of the damage done by being poor comes from feeling poor.
The Economist
Why is everyone so busy?
The Economist
~16 min read · From 2017 · Time poverty is a problem partly of perception and partly of distribution
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