The special section to appear in mid 2010 “Working Together to Reduce Poverty: Speaking Truth to Power about Expatriate-Local Pay” investigates the meaning of expatriate local pay for poverty reduction from a psychological perspective.
The issue is a key component of the Global Special Issue on
PSYCHOLOGY AND POVERTY REDUCTION
In 2000, the United Nations collectively signed up to the Millennium Development Goals. These goals focus on the reduction of poverty by the year 2015. They encompass a range of integral human freedoms, from the right to health and education, to gender equity, a clean environment, and fair trade. They are inherently inter-disciplinary. Inter-disciplinarity in turn creates an opportunity for disciplines and professions to-date relatively silent on poverty, to step up and make a contribution. Psychology is one such discipline and profession.
This “global special issue” is a unique opportunity for accelerated input from an entire field. We bring not one but a whole series of peer-reviewed journals to the theme, each journal with its own, complementary focus on the Millennium Development Goals in general, and poverty reduction in particular. The journals represent psychology from low-income, transition and OECD economies.
Their outputs are coordinated in a temporal sense. Each journal will release its contribution in mid 2010. Each journal will publish either a special section of papers, or an entire issue of the journal, on the poverty reduction theme.
These are the peer-reviewed journals participating in the initiative:
• Psychology and Developing Societies
• The Journal of Psychology in Africa
• The Interamerican Journal of Psychology
• Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology
• International Journal of Psychology
• Applied Psychology: An International Review
• American Psychologist
• Journal of Managerial Psychology
• Journal of Health Psychology
• New Zealand Journal of Psychology
• The Australian Psychologist
Each journal will make its own individual call for contributions, according to its own policies and procedures. Development and policy development agencies, such as the United Nations and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, will be notified about the global special issue. It is expected that the special issue will make a significant contribution to the work of those agencies, and the people they serve.
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