A consistent finding across classifications is that extreme poverty has declined to low, single-digit levels. The principal exception is Scheduled Tribes (STs), whose poverty rate, though sharply ...

Green, a Wall Street investor, created a buzz in late 2025 by arguing that the U.S. poverty line should be jacked up to ...

Stigma is a glue that holds poverty, inequality and economic insecurity in place enabling and exacerbating inequalities of wealth, health and opportunity, says a new report. Poverty Stigma is a ...

A research article is revisiting one of the most widely cited explanations for terrorism: the idea that poverty and poor economic development are primary drivers of political violence.

“Inequality is bad for economic growth and bad for poverty reduction. In the past researchers were not able to exactly quantify the effect of inequality in the context of economic shocks. This graph ...

Figure 4b: The poorest regions are furthest behind and contribute more to the Global Prosperity Gap relative to their population in 2024 Figure 5: Limited gains in the Global Gap due to a slowdown of ...

Silicon Valley leaders took part in a poverty simulation meant to highlight the hurdles of being poor in one of the ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Latin American poverty levels in 2023 fell to a 33-year low, led by progress in Brazil, the United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said in ...

When in 2022 the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released figures indicating that at least 63% of people living in the country, about 133 million persons, were multidimensionally poor, fresh ...

Eleni Abraham Yitbarek is affiliated with Partnership for Economic Policy (Research Fellow) Kehinde Oluwaseun Omotoso is affiliated with DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Social Policy, College of Graduate ...

After a long period marked by twin deficits, currency instability and falling foreign exchange reserves, even a small primary ...

Pakistan faces a daunting economic scenario with poverty hitting a record high of 29% and income inequality at its worst in nearly three decades. A government survey highlights the pressing economic ...