Tag: social economy

Why thinking beyond money is vital for solving the poverty puzzle

OPINION: Conventional development interventions that ignore nature and culture can reinforce poverty. A new concept known as the "poverty cube" could help donor agencies better integrate poverty, environment and culture in their thinking and development planning.

Gruel ups the odds of overweight toddlers

Six-month-old infants who are given gruel instead of breast milk are more often overweight a year later.

Prostitution ban misses the target, argue migration researchers

Legalise prostitution and consider foreign sex workers as immigrants who leave their home country to earn money to support their families, said researchers at a recent ‘Intimate Migration’ conference in Denmark.