Generous anti-poverty programs may help narrow gaps in mental health and brain development between children living in low- versus high-income households, a new study finds. The analysis, published in ...

With the stroke of a pen, the United States raised millions of children out of poverty during the COVID-19 pandemic. And with the tick of a clock, it let millions of those kids fall back into economic ...

Illustration by The New York Times. Photograph by Getty Images. By Max Roser Graphics by Sara Chodosh Mr. Roser is the founder of Our World in Data and a professor at the University of Oxford’s ...

“Poverty is an ethical concept, not a statistical one”. — John Wall, World Bank, 2006 IN nuclear-powered Pakistan nearly 40-50 per cent of the country’s 240 million people live below or around the ...

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After several years in gestation, the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) recently launched Jamaica’s Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), which is intended to provide a complementary measure to ...

How do we address climate change, reduce poverty, and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet? Climate change is one of the defining issues of our time, and no country is immune. On this episode ...

Three decades ago nearly 2bn people lived in absolute poverty (ie, virtual destitution). By 2018 that figure had fallen by more than half. There has perhaps been no greater human achievement. How did ...

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