People generally just don't get what poverty actually means. This is a charge often enough aimed at me and people like me, well off white guys who pontificate upon economics. But those making that ...

Abstract: Relative poverty will become the major issue for poverty alleviation work in the post-2020 period and accordingly we need to define a threshold for evaluating relative poverty. This paper ...

In Britain, the headline relative in-work poverty rate steadily rose from 13.4% in 1994–95 to 18.4% in 2019–20. We study the ...

One plank of Bernie Sanders’ increasingly popular presidential platform is his focus on decreasing poverty and income inequality in America. In a recent appearance on CNN, he decried the influence ...

Don Boudreaux is getting mad with people who seem to be incapable of distinguishing between poverty and inequality. They are different and they need to be treated as different things. Most importantly ...

According to data from Statistics Estonia, the proportion of people living in relative and absolute poverty in Estonia has decreased compared to 2022. However, perceived deprivation has increased. In ...

Glasgow actor Peter Capaldi has backed The Herald's child poverty campaign after it was shortlisted for a media industry ...

Rising average living standards in many developing countries have triggered a reassessment of what it means to be considered poor. In response, some of those countries have increased their poverty ...

More and more people are falling into poverty according to the latest Poverty in Australia report, but ending is easier than ...

The UK has the fourth highest child mortality rate, third worst relative poverty and lowest funded health care in the Western world, new research concludes. The study did present some good news, as ...

THOUSANDS have marched through Edinburgh, pushing for improved social security, better jobs and more investment in areas such ...

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