Think Change Rewind – what does poverty really mean today?

Think Change

We are taking a break from our regular schedule this month to look back on some of the most popular episodes released since Think Change first aired back in March 2022.
This episode revisits a conversation we released last year, and the halfway point of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals deadline to end poverty and reduce inequalities.

We asked what poverty really means today, and if old notions of ending poverty simply by increasing individual income above an arbitrary line are even useful anymore.

This year we have looked closely at trends across a range of issues – both globally and by region – which has revealed just how much effort is needed if we want to meet these targets by 2030, with no one left behind.

With the so-called ‘polycrisis’ pushing more people into poverty, and the World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Platform’s global poverty estimates at 712 million people living below the $2.15 per day poverty line, we asked our guests how we define and fight poverty today.

Guests

• Sara Pantuliano (host), Chief Executive, ODI
• Rathin Roy, Visiting Senior Fellow and former Managing Director, ODI
• Yamini Aiyar, President and Chief Executive, Centre for Policy Research
• Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva, Chief Economist for DataPop Alliance and former Director of the Equity and Social Policy Programme, ODI

Chapters

1. Think Change Rewind – what does poverty really mean today? (00:00:00)

2. Introduction (Sara Pantuliano) (00:00:10)

3. How we talk about poverty (Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva) (00:02:17)

4. New definitions of poverty – have institutions kept up? (Yamini Aiyar) (00:05:55)

5. A look at the policies: Brazil and the UK (Rathin Roy) (00:09:29)

6. A key message to leaders (Rathin Roy) (00:13:02)

7. The depoliticisation of poverty (Yamini Aiyar, Rathin Roy) (00:15:06)

8. Democracy and inequality (Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva, Yamini Aiyar) (00:22:13)

9. Conclusion (Sara Pantuliano) (00:30:25)