Poverty

How do globalization and state–non-state cooperation shape poverty reduction? This challenge has the strongest links to Development & sustainability (especially inequality), with real ties to Rights & justice and to conflict.

Where to look

• Child labour at Manila's "Smokey Mountain" — local approaches against national ones.
• Poverty in Aboriginal communities in Queensland — why the policies miss.
• "Relative poverty" in the UK — which level of government is best placed to address it?
• The Global Poverty Project and "Live Below the Line" — empathy used as a political tool, and the critique of that.

Concepts this challenge pulls on

Structural power, and interdependence in its least comfortable form: the argument that some places are poor because of how they are connected, not despite it.

Connections worth making

Health and Equality are the obvious two. The more interesting one is Security: poverty as a driver of conflict, and conflict as a driver of poverty — a loop, not a line.