Nov 25, 2019 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society
Poverty is a prevalent issue in Aotearoa, with the narrative often around inequality amongst our most vulnerable communities. New research conducted by AUT’s New Zealand Work Research Institute has found that more than 50,000 working households live in poverty across...
Nov 11, 2019 | Politics & Society, Science & Technology
A new report has been released by the Child Poverty Action Group detailing food poverty and how it affects children in New Zealand. The report is titled “Aotearoa, land of the long wide bare cupboard” and comes in addition to research from the Auckland...
Oct 31, 2018 | Business & Economics, Science & Technology
By Jessica Eise & Kenneth Foster World hunger has risen for three straight years, and climate change is a cause. World hunger has risen for a third consecutive year, according to the United Nations’ annual food security report. The total number of people who face...
May 24, 2018 | Politics & Society, Referee
New Zealand has some of the worst housing deprivation rates in the developed world per capita, and they appear to be getting worse. An article citing OECD statistics by Yale Global Online states that New Zealand has the worst homeless rate in the OECD adding that...
Jun 26, 2017 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society
What is the relationship between minerals (such as oil, diamonds, and gold) and conflict, authoritarianism, and poverty? Scholars have spent years studying how the extractive industries impact people’s lives, their governance, and the environment throughout the...