During 2012 a research project on the relationship between law and poverty, titled Poverty
and Justice, was launched in the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria. The starting …

Poverty is not new. It is not a recent affliction of humankind. It has always been with us. In
that regard, I have argued elsewhere that of all the social phenomena that have a significant …

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to
get rid of it... In the final analysis, the rich must not ignore the poor because both rich and …

This work ventilates the problem of poverty in Nigeria, where over 70 percent of the
population is living below the poverty line, and the theoretical and practcal implications of …

This article adopts an analysis that explicitly politicises poverty and relates it to the concrete
history of racialised capitalism and structural inequality that defined colonialism and …

Poverty remains one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in this century. Despite the
fact that the world is blessed with natural and human resources, a significant number of …

This thesis approaches poverty from a legal viewpoint, more specifically from the
perspective of human rights. The fact that poverty is a violation of most human rights has …

This collection of essays focuses attention on the global impact of legal policies on levels of
poverty. They illustrate the distinct dimensions of poverty in a range of different political and …

The title and thus broad framing of this article is" poverty as injustice". The implicit other side
of the claim" poverty as injustice" is that justice would mean the absence of poverty. Our …

Many different indicators are used to monitor poverty and poverty-related deprivations. Two
kinds of legitimacy worries may arise about any such indicator: one regarding its reliability …