NTU participates in the policy making of ending poverty on all fronts.
Evidence : College of Social Science, NTU is devoted to create and design systems that protect human dignity and wellbeing, and address poverty issue is one of the priority the College of Social Science focuses on.
(Global) Professor Ming-Jen Lin (林明仁) and Kuan-Ming Chen (陳官明) cooperated with the Gender Equality Committee of the Executive Yuan to conduct analytical research on female labor supply and why female workforce leaves the labor market using administrative data. The research helps understand how much long-term care needs affect female labor supply, especially single parents and those struggle financially. The research won the APEC Healthy Women, Healthy Economies Research Prize for Research.
https://www.apec.org/healthywomen/hwhe_prize
(Global) Professor Yu-Wen Chen collaborated with World Vision Taiwan and participated in the “Transnational Children’s Subjective Well-Being Survey Project” spearheaded by 22 countries to collect data on the living conditions and subjective well-being of children in various countries under the impact of the COVID-19 in 2021. The project allows World Vision, who serves poor families across the country, to understand the high vulnerability of economically disadvantaged families, and plan service measures that can help these children and their families overcome the impact of the pandemic, rebuild their lives, and learn resilience.
https://isciweb.org/news/childrens-worlds-covid-19-supplement/
(National) Professor Ke-Hsien Huang (黃克先)出版「Precarious Living: Homeless People and the Helping Networks in Taiwan」presents the life course and real life situation of the homeless, and tries to put forward policy suggestions and action plans to tackle the homeless issues in Taiwan.
(National) Professor Jiunn-Shi Shih organized the “Aging Population and Social Welfare – Reflections on Social Investment” forum for the National Institutes of Health to analyze various important social policies in Taiwan.
https://forum.nhri.edu.tw/108-pp-6/
