Reflections and Recommendations | Pathways into and out of poverty

By Kieran Madden

Reflections and Recommendations A clearer understanding of how poverty “works” helps to guide a better, more dynamic response for struggling…

Poverty related factors for families now and in the future

By Kieran Madden

Poverty-related factors for families now – international evidence[1] As New Zealand-based evidence is limited, we turn to the UK to…

Poverty across generations

By Kieran Madden

Mobility and persistences: Poverty across generations Poverty is an intergenerational, relational problem. While the prevailing philosophical perspective promotes the view…

Current poverty | poverty within lifetimes

By Kieran Madden

Risk factors and trigger events What causes poverty for families today differs from what causes poverty across generations. Causes of…

Causation and income dynamics of people in disadvantage

By Kieran Madden

CAUSATION The surveys above asked the question, “What causes poverty?” But before we, as researchers and policy makers, can answer…

Uncovering pathways into and out of disadvantage in New Zealand

By Kieran Madden

INTRODUCTION Families in poverty face significant challenges and disadvantages that are likely to have scarring effects long into their children’s…

Max Rashbrooke Podcast

New Zealand expert in poverty and inequality Max Rashbrooke sits down with our CEO Alex Penk and Research Manager, Kieran…

Recommendations | Defining and measuring what it means to be poor in New Zealand

By Kieran Madden

DEFINITION AND MEASUREMENT   Defining Poverty: A definition of poverty cannot capture “everything in the world we don’t like,” as one…

Defining and measuring what it means to be poor in New Zealand

By Kieran Madden

INTRODUCTION Who is poor? How did they get there, and how has poverty damaged their lives? The first paper in…

Drawing the Line | Measuring Poverty

By Kieran Madden

Just as there is no one accepted definition of poverty, there is also no one measure of poverty. Measures of…

Creating poverty-busting opportunites that work for people with disabilities

By Alex Penk

by Alex Penk and Danielle van Dalen This week there’s been a lot of coverage about employment opportunities for people…

MEDIA RELEASE: Creating work opportunities for people with disabilities to get out of poverty

Thursday, 23 May In New Zealand people with disabilities earn just half of the average income of people without disabilities….

Policy Paper: Creating Opportunity

By Danielle van Dalen

People with disabilities are overlooked in the national conversation on poverty and overrepresented in New Zealand’s poverty statistics. They face…

Two-and-a-half cheers for child poverty bill

By Alex Penk

I was born at the tail-end of Gen X, so I grew up with a pop culture saturated by “fear…

The collision of research and real life

By Alex Penk

I’ve never been to Maraenui, but I’ve now had a pretty eye-opening introduction to the Napier suburb. The devastation caused…

Sabotaging the lifts in New Zealand’s tower of wealth

By Julian Wood

If you haven’t seen the 2018 Side Eye Inequality Tower by Toby Morris and Max Rashbrooke, it’s well worth a…

Submission: Child Poverty Reduction Bill

By Kieran Madden

Maxim Institute supports this Bill and proposes amendments to strengthen it. We welcome this Bill and its potential to increase…

Promises and plans to change poverty in New Zealand

By Kieran Madden

A few weeks ago, my colleague wrote about Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s “courageous move” to introduce the Child Poverty Reduction…

The too hard basket: Breaking the link between disability and poverty

By Danielle van Dalen

Less than half of New Zealanders with disabilities are in paid employment. New research from the Maxim Institute suggests employers…

Acknowledging Ability

By Danielle van Dalen

When we talk about poverty, we rarely consider people with disabilities as a group who are particularly at risk. But…