John Bird's poverty diagram shows how far removed the aspiration for welfare spending in 1948 is from today's reality.

This graph compares negative economic growth and positive economic growth; and their impact on the poor or on poverty reduction. We see that when the economy is growing positively, poverty reduction ...

A unique analysis of district-level data reveals why inequality is so destructive to the household consumption welfare of people living below the poverty line. During negative economic growth, the ...

Both the HDI and per capita income are highly correlated with other widely used measures of poverty (Chart 2), such as the share of the population with income of less than $1 per day (a World Bank ...

Georgia is one of only six states that does not allocate state funds to students in poverty. That could soon be changing – kind of.

The Madagascar Poverty Assessment report launched in February 2024 provides an account of the evolution of poverty and living conditions in Madagascar in the last decade (2012-2022). These are the ...

Investment in agriculture and ensuring equitable access to opportunities and services could help reduce poverty. Strong economic growth during the pre-transition period of 2007-08 to 2011-12 did not ...