GERMANY - Nearly one in three students live in poverty, survey finds [University World News, May 2022]

Title:

Nearly one in three students live in poverty, survey finds 

 

Author:

Michael Gardner  

 

Published:

University World News, 20 May 2022 

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20220519154136967

 

From the article:

A new survey suggests that nearly a third of all students in Germany are living in poverty, and that four out of five students who live on their own are below the poverty line. Recent price hikes threaten to exacerbate hardship among students.  

 

The survey was published by the German Parity Welfare Association, or Deutscher Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband, a federation of welfare associations.

 

Pandemic, Poverty, and Inequality: Evidence from India [IMF Working Paper, April 2022]

Title:

Pandemic, Poverty, and Inequality: Evidence from India

 

Authors:

Surjit S Bhalla, Karan Bhasin & Arvind Virmani

Published:

IMF Working Paper, April 2022

Click here to read (pdf format)

Abstract:

The paper presents estimates of poverty [extreme poverty PPP$1.9 and PPP$3.2] and consumption inequality in India for each of the years 2004-5 through the pandemic year 2020-21. These estimates include, for the first time, the effect of in-kind food subsides on poverty and inequality. Extreme poverty was as low as 0.8 percent in the pre-pandemic year 2019, and food transfers were instrumental in ensuring that it remained at that low level in pandemic year 2020. Post-food subsidy inequality at .294 is now very close to its lowest level 0.284 observed in 1993/94.

 

ILO Report – World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2022

Title: 

World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2022  

 

Focus of report: 

This ILO flagship report details the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on the world of work.  

 

Published: 

International Labour Organization (ILO), 17 January 2022 

https://www.ilo.org/global/research/global-reports/weso/trends2022/WCMS_834081/lang--en/index.htm  

 

ISBN (Print): 9789220356975[ISBN] 

ISBN (Web PDF): 9789220356982[ISBN]  

 

Description of report (from above-mentioned website): 

The report examines the impacts of the crisis on global and regional trends in employment, unemployment and labour force participation, as well as on job quality, informal employment and working poverty. It also offers an extensive analysis of trends in temporary employment both before and during the COVID-19 crisis.  This year’s report provides a comprehensive assessment of how the labour market recovery has unfolded across the world in response to different country measures to tackle the pandemic. It analyses global patterns, regional differences and outcomes across economic sectors and groups of workers. The report also presents projections for the expected labour market recovery. 

 

ALSO SEE  

 

International Labour Organization (ILO) 

https://www.ilo.org/global/lang--en/index.htm 

 

AFRICA - 10 poorest countries in Africa; how do they live and what needs to be done?

Title:

10 poorest countries in Africa; how do they live and what needs to be done?

 

Author:

Emmanuel Abara Benson

 

Published:

Business Insider Africa, 16 October 2021

https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifestyle/top-10-poorest-countries-in-africa-in-2021/qrsbhj9

 

From the article:

* Most of the world's poorest people are concentrated in Africa. These people live in abject poverty, many of them on less than a dollar per day. 

 

* The ten poorest African countries are scattered across West Africa, Southern Africa, the Horn of Africa and the Indian Ocean. 

 

* There are two common characteristics similar to them all – man-made and natural disasters.

 

Washington University in St. Louis, USA - 17-year study of children associates poverty with smaller, slower-growing subcortical regions

Title:

17-year study of children associates poverty with smaller, slower-growing subcortical regions

 

Source:

Washington University in St. Louis

 

Published:

ScienceDaily, 11 August 2021

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210811175218.htm

 

From the article:

Children in poverty are more likely to have cognitive and behavioral difficulties than their better-off peers. Plenty of past research has looked into the physical effects of childhood poverty, or documented mental health disparities between socioeconomic classes. But Deanna Barch, chair and professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, and her colleague Joan Luby, MD, the Samuel and Mae S. Ludwig Professor of Child Psychiatry in the School of Medicine, wanted to look at a suite of outcomes to determine whether poverty continues to affect people as they enter adulthood. 

University of South Africa (Unisa) - Socio-economic development through skills training for poverty reduction : an exploratory study of rural women in Mthatha, South Africa [PhD thesis by Sampson Tawiah]

Title:

Socio-economic development through skills training for poverty reduction : an exploratory study of rural women in Mthatha, South Africa

 

Author:

Tawiah, Sampson

 

Published:

University of South Africa (Unisa), February 2020

[Ph.D. in Educational Studies]

http://uir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/27129

Abstract:

Women constitute the largest proportion of the rural adult South African population. The rural areas host women with the lowest levels of education and skills training in the country. The lack of basic education and skills has resulted in many of them being marginalised, rejected and discriminated against, unemployed and living in poverty. These social problems have serious negative effects on them and their families, which is why the educational provision of Adult and Community Education and Training in South Africa is a significant tool for their socio-economic advancement. This educational provision is aimed at empowering adults in general, and rural women in particular, with the necessary livelihood skills to lead productive lives and consequently the study sought to investigate the socio-economic lives of rural women through skills training for poverty reduction in the Mthatha area of South Africa. A qualitative research approach and an exploratory design were employed for the study. A sample of 35 participants, comprising 20 female learners, 4 educators, and 7 former learners were in addition to 4 learners selected for a focus group discussion. Other instruments with which data were collected constituted in-depth individual interviews and documentary analysis. The theories underpinning the study are Maslow‘s theory of motivation, empowerment theory and critical pedagogy. Among others, the findings revealed the absence of adequate resources with which to empower rural women and consequently the study recommends that Adult and Community Education and Training providers include programmes that can up-skill rural women based at community learning centres in an effort to enhance their economic development. Community learning centres must be fully resourced in terms of facilities and appropriate learning tools to render Adult and Community Education and Training a beneficial educational intervention for these rurally based women.

University of Pretoria, Thesis (LLD), February 2020 - The relation between access to water poverty and patriarchy : the case of women slum dwellers in Kibera Kenya (by M. A, Odeny)

Title:

The relation between access to water poverty and patriarchy : the case of women slum dwellers in Kibera Kenya 

 

Author:

Odeny, Millicent Akinyi

 

Published:

University of Pretoria, Thesis (LLD), February 2020

[A thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirement of an award of The Degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD) in the Faculty of Law at The university of Pretoria.]

https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/76755

 

Research problem:

"The lack of access to adequate, safe, close, and affordable water and sanitation in Kenya motivates this thesis. The main research problem that I investigate is the position of women slum dwellers in Kibera, Kenya, concerning access to water and sanitation and how access to water is affected by their status as impoverished women. I aim to unearth the relation between access to water, poverty, and patriarchy to underscore the impact of inadequate access on women slum dwellers of Kibera and the coping mechanisms employed to alleviate the problem."

WORLD BANK - Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020 : Reversals of Fortune [Book published 7 October 2020]

Title:

Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020 : Reversals of Fortune

 

Book published:

World Bank, 7 October 2020

https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/34496

 

ISBN:

978-1-4648-1602-4

 

Decsription of book on publisher site:

"Previous Poverty and Shared Prosperity Reports have conveyed the difficult message that the world is not on track to meet the global goal of reducing extreme poverty to 3 percent by 2030. This edition brings the unwelcome news that COVID-19, along with conflict and climate change, has not merely slowed global poverty reduction but reversed it for first time in over twenty years. With COVID-19 predicted to push up to 100 million additional people into extreme poverty in 2020, trends in global poverty rates will be set back at least three years over the next decade. Today, 40 percent of the global poor live in fragile or conflict-affected situations, a share that could reach two-thirds by 2030. Multiple effects of climate change could drive an estimated 65 to 129 million people into poverty in the same period. “Reversing the reversal” will require responding effectively to COVID-19, conflict, and climate change while not losing focus on the challenges that most poor people continue to face most of the time. Though these are distinctive types of challenges, there is much to be learned from the initial response to COVID-19 that has broader implications for development policy and practice, just as decades of addressing more familiar development challenges yield insights that can inform responses to today’s unfamiliar but daunting ones. Solving novel problems requires rapid learning, open cooperation, and strategic coordination by everyone: from political leaders and scientists to practitioners and citizens."

 

Universities South Africa (USAf) - Universities should lead the battle against poverty through entrepreneurship

Title:

Universities should lead the battle against poverty through entrepreneurship

 

Published:

Universities South Africa (USAf), September 2020

https://www.newssite.co.za/usaf/battle-poverty.html

From the article:

Professor Michael Morris (right), leader in the field of Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana in the United States, gave a talk at the Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE) Lekgotla that focused on new ways of thinking about concepts as a way of finding solutions to world problems.

South Africa - The definitive presentation why and how LOCKDOWN is more deadly than COVID in South Africa [Duration: 1:51:8] - Excellent presentation (well-presented & evidence-based) - Hosted by Morning Shot, 2 September 2020

Morning Shot video title:
The Definitive Lockdown Presentation Livestream

Full title of presentation:
The definitive presentation why and how LOCKDOWN is more deadly than COVID in South Africa

Presenters:
Piet le Roux, B4EL
Nick Hudson, SANA Partners & PANDA
Russell Lamberti, ETM Macro Advisors & PANDA
Hans Zachar, Emerging Markets: TransUnion Africa

Hosted by:
Morning Shot, 2 September 2020
[Note: Webinar starts at 10:00 into this video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kYznMj4_ZA

Duration of Webinar:
1:51:8

Video description:
Business for Ending Lockdown (B4EL) invites the media, business representatives, policy makers, and the public to the launch of the presentation, via complimentary Livestream.

See also this article:
Business groups launch new petition against South Africa's lockdown - here's what they are calling for [Business Tech, 13 August 2020]

From the above-mentioned article:
The group has called on the government to:
* End the lockdown immediately;
* Lift the state of disaster;
* Allow people and organisations to manage their unique risks by converting all Covid-19 regulations into non-compulsory recommendations.

Crise alimentaire : cinq pistes pour fluidifier les approvisionnements en Afrique [Food crisis: five avenues to streamline supplies in Africa]

Titre [Title]:
Crise alimentaire : cinq pistes pour fluidifier les approvisionnements en Afrique
[Food crisis: five avenues to streamline supplies in Africa]

Par [By]:
Gaëlle Balineau, Économiste du développement, Agence française de développement (AFD)
&
Nicole Madariaga, Économiste du développement, Agence française de développement (AFD)

Publié [Published]:
The Conversation, 14 June 2020
https://theconversation.com/crise-alimentaire-cinq-pistes-pour-fluidifier-les-approvisionnements-en-afrique-140447

Extrait de l'article [From the article]:

* En pleine crise du Covid-19, la nourriture à prix abordable ne manque pas, comme le martèle l’économiste en chef de l’Organisation pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO).
[In the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, there is no shortage of affordable food, as the chief economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) insists.]

* Les travaux de recherche post-2008 ont réaffirmé que les crises alimentaires ne sont pas toujours liées à des chutes de production, mais aussi à la pauvreté des consommateurs ou à des barrières commerciales.
[Post-2008 research as affirmed that food crisis are not always linked to falls in production, but also to consumer poverty or trade barriers.]

* Ce qui fait défaut ensuite, c’est l’infrastructure logistique pour acheminer les denrées alimentaires du port, ou du champ, jusqu’aux consommateurs : les circuits d’échanges internationaux ne sont pas rompus, mais les circuits d’approvisionnement et de distribution nationaux et intra-africains, eux, sont beaucoup moins robustes et résilients (Soudan, Angola, République démocratique du Congo…).
[What is missing next is the logistics infrastructure to transport food from the port, or from the field, to consumers: the international trade channels are not broken, but the supply and distribution circuits national and intra-African, they are much less robust and resilient (Sudan, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo ...).]

* On le voit actuellement : c’est en partie à cause des difficultés de circulation des transporteurs et des commerçants, des couvre-feux, des congestions aux frontières et des interdictions de déplacements que les opportunités économiques et les emplois disparaissent.
[We are seeing it now: it is partly because of the difficulties of transport for transporters and traders, curfews, border congestion and travel bans that economic opportunities and jobs are disappearing.]

Eswatini (formerly known as Swaziland) - Hunger mounts as kingdom’s economy is destroyed

Title:
Hunger mounts as kingdom’s economy is destroyed

Author:
Daniel Steyn

Published:
Daily Maverick, 5 May 2020

From the article:
"The Kingdom of Eswatini (formerly known as Swaziland) has been under full lockdown for more than a week. Many eMaswati who relied on the informal economy for their livelihoods are now destitute. As promised food packages are yet to arrive, activists are calling on the international community to assist."

To read this article:
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-05-05-hunger-mounts-as-kingdoms-economy-is-destroyed/

COVID-19: Glimpses of the Impact on the Poor / Poverty

Articles, videos & opinion pieces cover:
* situations in different regions/countries
* different views


GLOBALLY/IN GENERAL

Coronavirus is a devastating blow to children in poverty
Save the Children, 26 March 2020
* COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, is now present in virtually every country on earth. Each at different stages of the pandemic, there is a sense of foreboding that for many, the worst is yet to come. As the number of cases in fragile contexts begins to rise, we are starting to see the impact this will have on the most vulnerable children in all communities across the world. 

COVID-19 and the 5 major threats it poses to global food security
Insight, 30 March 2020
* Today, over 800 million people face chronic undernourishment and over 100 million people are in need of lifesaving food assistance. The novel Coronavirus, COVID-19, risks undermining the efforts of humanitarian and food security organizations seeking to reverse these trends.

Developing countries face economic collapse in COVID-19 fight: UN
Aljazeera, 30 March 2020
* $220bn in lost income; nearly half of all jobs in Africa wiped out; UNDP warns of economic devastation for poor nations.

The coronavirus could topple governments around the world
Foreign Policy, 31 March 2020
* The coronavirus pandemic might not disrupt politics in wealthy Western democracies, but it is likely to unleash political instability—and even regime change—in developing countries already suffering from an economic crisis.


DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD

PART 1: AFRICA

IN GENERAL
Watch: Will Covid-19 soon become a poor man's burden?
IOL, 29 March 2020
* At end of the first day of South Africa’s 21-day lockdown in reaction to the novel coronavirus virus, there was outrage that many people in the country’s poorer areas did not heed the call that they must stay at home in order to reduce infections. Individuals and the media expressed their displeasure and encouraged the police and soldiers to use their power to bring delinquency to an end.  
* What is not clear though Is whether the concern is for the people themselves or it is the usual response from privileged classes that the poor will spread the disease. If this is not guarded, the poor and poverty are going to be scapegoats should the situation get out of control. And as it is the case with everything else, people in Africa will bear the brunt. It is coming!

EGYPT
COVID-19 comes with a high cost to Egyptian economy
The Arab Weekly, 29 March 2020
* “The COVID-19 outbreak is paralysing all sectors of the economy,” said Yumn al-Hamaqi, a professor of economics at Ain Shams University.

NIGERIA
Nigeria's north: Coronavirus in the world's poverty capital
The Africa Report, 26 March 2020
* To date, there has been no confirmed cases of coronavirus in Northern Nigeria.  
* But the North accounts for almost 90 per cent of all the poor people in Nigeria. Only 24 percent of households have access to basic services such as electricity, water and sanitation. Compounded with that is the fact that about ten million children remain out of school and roam the streets begging as part of an Almajiri system of religious education.  
* An outbreak in the region will be catastrophic.

SOUTH AFRICA
Covid-19: Central Bank must print more money for the poor - expert
Power, 1 April 2020
* In the midst of the Covid-19 lockdown, businesses are going under, people are going to lose jobs and the unemployed and vulnerable will bear the greatest brunt of the strain.  
* This has prompted academics and economists to sound a clarion call to the government to relieve the poor and vulnerable with R1000 grants.

Covid-19: Redirect consumption from the rich to the poor to avert a humanitarian crisis
Mail & Guardian, 31 March 2020
* South African survey data suggest that eight million workers are not registered with the Unemployment Insurance Fund. As a consequence, under the lockdown, these workers will lose much of their income and, in turn, will not be able to sustain the basic needs of an additional 13-million household members they directly support.

The biggest battle we face apart from COVID-19 is poverty
Activate, 31 March 2020
* For many households, getting water continues to stretch budgets and create stress – R20 used to cover more than a week supply of water (20-25 litre of bucket cost over R20) but with the growing anxiety and municipal trucks unable to deliver water daily, the struggle seems to continue.

Zandspruit on Covid-19: Life goes on no one cares for us (video)
Eyewitness News, 29 March 2020
* There's nothing enjoyable about staying in a small roomed structure made of corrugated iron for 21-days while left in despair about how you're going to pay the next month's rent. This is the reality for many South Africans living in informal settlements.

UGANDA
Shutdown in Uganda over COVID-19 hits poor hard
AA, 1 April 2020
* Times tough not only due to fears of infection but also because of poverty, says shop owner.


PART 2: ASIA

IN GENERAL
East Asia and Pacific: Countries Must Act Now to Mitigate Economic Shock of COVID-19
The World Bank, 30 March 2020
* Developing economies in East Asia and the Pacific (EAP), recovering from trade tensions and struggling with COVID-19, now face the prospect of a global financial shock and recession.

Mitigating the impact of COVID-19: Poverty and food insecurity in the Arab region
Reliefweb, 1 April 2020
* An additional 8.3 million people will fall into poverty in the Arab region, according to a new policy brief issued today by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) on the impact of COVID-19.

The Coronavirus pandemic could force Asia below the poverty line
Industry Global News, 1 April 2020
* The world on the brink of extinction may not be the case likely but a world that is on the verge of poverty is not exaggerated. According to a report released by the World Bank on March 31, the economic fallout of the pandemic could usher in poverty to an estimated 11 million people.

CHINA
China’s poorest pay the price of coronavirus outbreak
Financial Times, 15 March 2020
* Data suggest that the coronavirus outbreak, which has infected more than 80,000 people in China, is being brought under control. However, months of restrictions on travel, work and daily life are putting enormous pressure on families at the margins of Chinese society.

INDIA
1.3 billion people. A 21-day lockdown. Can India curb the coronavirus?
Science, 31 March 2020
* Modi’s lockdown had social and economic impacts even sharper than lockdowns in richer countries. Millions of Indians who depend on each day’s wages for their daily meal were thrown out of work. Migrant workers packed buses and trains home, potentially taking the virus into rural areas. And as transport options dried up, many families in New Delhi and other major cities simply began to walk to their distant villages, with little access to food.

Coronavirus lockdown leaves India's poor jobless and struggling to eat
IOL, 26 March 2020
* Some of India's legions of poor and people suddenly thrown out of work by a nationwide stay-at-home order began receiving aid distribution Thursday, as both the public and private sector work to blunt the impact of efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic.

India: World's biggest Covid-19 lockdown leaves poor starving (video)
ABC News, 28 Marc 2020
* There are fears that the world's biggest lockdown in India could leave millions of the poor to starve and die. 

LEBANON
COVID-19: Almost half of Lebanon now lives below poverty line
Aljazeera, 1 April 2020
* Lebanon's cabinet has approved financial aid for low-income families as pandemic deepens what was already the country's worst economic crisis in decades.

PHILIPPINES

Coronavirus restrictions: Philippine poor suffer after closures (video)

Aljazeera, 31 March 2020

* The Philippines's most populous island, Luzon has been under quarantine for two weeks.  That has left many of its poor unable to go out and work. And they have little in the way of a social safety net or savings to protect them.

PART 3: EUROPE

ITALY
Italy issues foodstamps as coronavirus threatens millions with poverty
The Times, 29 March 2020
* Italy will distribute €400 million in food stamps as fears grow of social unrest triggered by rising poverty during the country’s coronavirus lockdown.

SPAIN
Poor and vulnerable hardest hit by pandemic in Spain
The Guardian, 1 April 2020
* Rate of infection in less affluent neighbourhoods near Barcelona is nearly seven times higher than in upmarket areas.
* The coronavirus pandemic in Spain is taking a disproportionate toll on the poor, the elderly, the marginalised and those working in low-paid but vital jobs, experts have warned.

UNITED KINGDOM
Telegraph Coronavirus Appeal: To get through this crisis, the poorest need hard cash for basics now
The Telegraph, 28 March 2020
* Fourteen million people live in poverty in the UK. That figure – shocking enough – was before Covid-19 turned so many peoples’ finances upside down. In the coming weeks, it will rise exponentially due to sickness and job loss. Already there is talk of more than one million unemployed and that is just the start.


PART 4: OCEANIA

AUSTRALIA
Coronavirus Could Push More Australian Women Into Poverty, Experts Say
Global Citizen, 1 April 2020
* CEO of YWCA Australia Michelle Phillips has warned the Australian government that its initiative for tax-free withdrawal from superannuation savings could push women into poverty and homelessness. Instead of leaving at-risk women with no other option but to draw on their small retirement funds, YWCA has called for distinct funds to be made available. 

NEW ZEALAND
New Zealand's coronavirus stimulus leaves the working poor most exposed
The Guardian, 17 March 2020
* The downturn is going to cause economic chaos, and it will see job losses.


PART 5: THE CARIBBEAN, CENTRAL AMERICA, NORTH AMERICA & SOUTH AMERICA

CANADA
PM Trudeau on poverty reduction, COVID-19, rail blockades (video)
cpac, 5 March 2020
* Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a news conference in Toronto after visiting the Boys and Girls Club of East Scarborough to highlight his government's poverty-reduction measures. 

LATIN AMERICA
Coronavirus hits rich and poor unequally in Latin America
APNews, 30 March 2020
* From Mexico City to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Santiago, Chile, the coronavirus is taking root in the world’s most unequal region, where many of Latin America’s first cases arrived with members of the elite returning from vacations or work trips to Europe and the United States.  
* Many of the wealthy are already recovering, but experts warn that the virus could kill scores of the poorest people, who must work every day to feed their families, live in unsanitary conditions and lack proper medical care. Some countries are making payments to informal workers — maids, street sellers and others who have been told to stay home to reduce the spread of the virus, but the effort is patchwork and doesn’t apply to everyone who needs help.

MEXICO
COVID-19 leaves migrants in limbo near the U.S.-Mexico border (video)
CGTN America, 26 March 2020
* Migrants are living in limbo near the U.S.-Mexico border. The new reality is putting pressure on the Mexican city of Tijuana and its already stressed population. 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Americans struggle with job losses amid virus (video)
Associated Press, 19 March 2020
* A growing number of Americans are suddenly losing their jobs as the coronavirus shuts down industries, businesses and schools.

U-M’s Poverty Solutions releases Michigan COVID-19 Pandemic Resource Guide
Michigan News, 27 March 2020
* A new Michigan COVID-19 Pandemic Resource Guide provides information on how to access various resources aimed at supporting Michiganders through the coronavirus pandemic and related economic slowdown.  
* While everyone is affected by the restrictions on public gatherings, business closures and public health concerns, it is low-wage hourly workers, people with little savings or disposable income and people living in poverty who will have the most difficult time weathering the economic disruption accompanying the COVID-19 crisis, says H. Luke Shaefer, founding director of Poverty Solutions and a professor of social work and public policy at the University of Michigan.

Research from Vienna University of Economics and Business: 60% of North Koreans live in absolute poverty - higher than ever thought (Phys.org, 18 March 2020)

Title:
Research from Vienna University of Economics and Business: 60% of North Koreans live in absolute poverty - higher than ever thought

By:
Vienna University of Economics and Business

Published:
Phys.org, 18 March 2020

From the article:
"According to Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, Professor of Macroeconomics, the share of people living in absolute poverty in North Korea in 2018 can be estimated at around 60% of the population, which equates to roughly 15 million people." 

To read this article:
https://phys.org/news/2020-03-north-koreans-absolute-povertyhigher-thought.html

Madagascar: l’impact de la crise économique sur la scolarisation en milieu rural [Madagascar: the impact of the economic crisis on education in rural areas] - In French

Title:
Madagascar: l’impact de la crise économique sur la scolarisation en milieu rural

Author:
Tantely Andrianantoandro

Published:
The Conversation, 3 March 2020

From the article:
"Madagascar est un pays pauvre où plus de 75 % de la population vit en dessous de 1,90 $/jour et environ 50 % des enfants de moins de 5 ans souffrent de retard de croissance. Le taux d’abandon scolaire reste également parmi les plus élevés. Les dernières enquêtes relèvent en effet un taux de survie en dernière année du primaire s’élevant à 36,1 % en 2015. L’abandon scolaire et/ou la mise au travail des enfants sont souvent liés à la pauvreté des ménages."

To read this article:
https://theconversation.com/madagascar-limpact-de-la-crise-economique-sur-la-scolarisation-en-milieu-rural-132813