The infographic contains a table listing country names and poverty rates. Zimbabwe is ranked first with a score of 84.2 ...
Nigeria’s poverty debate has drifted into a dangerous simplification. A single figure appears, detached from its assumptions, ...
Using detailed surveys and machine learning computation, new research co-authored at UC Berkeley's Center for Effective Global Action finds that eradicating extreme poverty would be surprisingly ...
THE World Bank, a trustworthy source of information and data, says that Kenya is the 10th-poorest country in the world, with people living on less than 3 USD a day.According to the World Bank/Our ...
In most European countries, the average income of people over 65 is lower than that of the total population, according to the OECD. In several cases, elderly incomes fall below 80% of the national ...
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Poverty in the Philippines is neither a mystery, nor an accident. And certainly, it is not what the poor want for themselves or their loved ones. Absolutely, not their fault in spite of some ...
The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff. The series draws mainly from IMF ...
New York City is changing the way it measures poverty among its residents. By the middle of next year, the city will replace the federal poverty measure—which has been used for almost 40 years—with ...