Povery

by Eduardo Lépore and Séverine Deneulin In country after country, public health measures of social distancing and isolation have been implemented to contain the contagion of COVID-19. In countries with well developed welfare states, these have been accompanied by social...

By Neil Howard Today is International Children’s Day, when the world’s child protection institutions both remind us that children are the future and urge us to better care for them in the present. But how well are they doing their...

By Geof Wood It must be helpful that this year’s economics Nobel prize (Banerjee, Duflo and Kremer) has been awarded for tackling poverty. But there also must remain a questionmark over whether experimental methods and RCT can really capture the...