The UK government has failed to act on extreme poverty by Hiam, LU, Dorling, DFL

Transactional sex amongst AIDS-orphaned and AIDS-affected adolescents predicted by abuse and extreme poverty by Boyes, M, Cluver, L, Gardner, F, Meinck, F, Orkin, M.

Is previous disaster experience a good predictor for disaster preparedness in extreme poverty households in remote Muslim minority based community in China? by Chan, E, Kim, J, Lin, C, Cheung, E, Lee, P

Burden of disease among the world’s poorest billion people: An expert-informed secondary analysis of Global Burden of Disease estimates by Coates, MM, Ezzati, M, Robles Aguilar, G, Kwan, GF, Vigo, D, Mocumbi, AO, Becker, AE, Makani, J, Hyder, AA, Jain, Y, Stefan, DC, Gupta, N, Marx, A, Bukhman, G

“…<br> <strong>Methods</strong> We defined the population in extreme poverty using a multidimensional poverty index. …”

Ecology. Biodiversity conservation and the Millennium Development Goals. by Sachs, J, Baillie, J, Sutherland, W, Armsworth, P, Ash, N, Beddington, J, Blackburn, T, Collen, B, Gardiner, B, Gaston, K, Godfray, H, Green, R, Harvey, P, House, B, Knapp, S, Kümpel, N, Macdonald, D, Mace, G, Mallet, J, Matthews, A, May, R, Petchey, O, Purvis, A, Roe, D, Safi, K

“…Any near-term gains in reducing extreme poverty will be maintained only if environmental sustainability is also achieved.…”

Skills development and international development agenda setting: lessons from an intervention in northern Nigeria by Bano, M

“…Based on prolonged fieldwork with a particularly marginalised community of children and young adults in the northern Nigerian state of Kano, this article shows how in contexts of extreme poverty the demand for skills training can supersede that for basic education. …”

The problem with yuppie ethics by Gabriel, I

“…It holds that rich people are morally permitted to spend large amounts of money on themselves, even when this means leaving those living in extreme poverty unaided. Against this view, I demonstrate that personal permissions are limited in certain ways: their strength must be continuous with the reasons put forward to explain their presence inside morality to begin with. …”

The freedom to choose: theory and quasi-experimental evidence on cash transfer restrictions by Siu, J, Sterck, O, Rodgers, C

“…Our results show that policy-makers should avoid restrictions to maximise positive impacts on transfer beneficiaries, especially when extreme poverty implies that transfers are extra-marginal.…”

Why care for humanity? by Reinhardt, L, Whitehouse, H

“…Some of the most pressing challenges facing our planet—such as climate change, biodiversity loss, warfare and extreme poverty—require social cohesion and prosocial action on a global scale. …”

Food systems and rural wellbeing: challenges and opportunities by Woodhill, J, Kishore, A, Njuki, J, Jones, K, Hasnain, S

“…This article tackles three blind spots in the understanding of rural poverty and vulnerability: the narrow focus on extreme poverty and hunger that hides a much wider set of inequalities and vulnerabilities, insufficient recognition of the diversity of rural households, and an inadequate appreciation of the impact of rapid structural changes in markets, the physical environment, and the political economic context. …”

Building strong foundations for later livelihoods by addressing child poverty: evidence from Young Lives by Dornan, P, Pells, K

“…Half the population of sub-Saharan Africa are aged 18 or younger, and young people comprise nearly half of all people living in extreme poverty worldwide. Poverty undermines not only children’s rights to life, survival, and development, as enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, but also the skills and capabilities that fastchanging economies need for future growth. …”

Poverty moderates the association between gender and school dropout in South African adolescents by Boyes, M, Berg, V, Cluver, L

“…Findings suggest that vulnerable boys should not be neglected in policies to improve retention in education in contexts of extreme poverty.…”

The arithmetics and politics of domestic resource mobilization for poverty eradication by Bolch, KB, Ceriani, L, López-Calva, LF

“…The first Sustainable Development Goal is to eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere by 2030. This paper explores how feasible it would be for developing countries to achieve the goal of eradicating poverty using only domestic resources, given their current tax base and political equilibrium. …”

Suicide in a rural area of coastal Kenya by Bitta, M, Bakolis, I, Kariuki, S, Nyutu, G, Mochama, G, Thornicroft, G, Newton, C

“…Completed suicide was associated with age, being male, and living in a house whose wall is made of scrap material, which is a proxy marker of extreme poverty in this region (OR = 5.5, 95% CI = 4.0–7.0, p = 0.02). …”

Improving early childhood care and development, HIV-testing, treatment and support, and nutrition in Mokhotlong, Lesotho: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial by Tomlinson, M, Skeen, S, Marlow, M, Cluver, L, Cooper, P, Murray, L, Mofokeng, S, Morley, N, Makhetha, M, Gordon, S, Esterhuizen, T, Sherr, L

“…DISCUSSION: This study provides a unique opportunity to assess the potential of an integrated early childhood development intervention to prevent or mitigate developmental delays in children living in a context of extreme poverty and high HIV rates in rural Lesotho. This paper presents the intervention content and research protocol for the study. …”