Stanford researchers quantified the cost of lifting people out of poverty globally, providing a framework to inform future policy decisions.

In a lecture given by David Berliner (professor of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies at the University of Arizona) at the opening of the American Educational Research Association in Montreal in ...

Over the last 50 years, the proportion of Americans living in poverty has remained virtually unchanged. In 2023, 11 percent of American’s lived below the poverty line. In 1973, that number was also 11 ...

A World Bank program has supported China’s fight against poverty through institutional innovations. Big data and a project management information system, together with integrated use of funds, have ...

Official surveys of household income and expenditure in Nigeria point to a rising tide of poverty and privation, especially for women. The recently released Nigeria General Household Survey-Panel ...

Advocates for the Child Tax Credit (CTC) have highlighted its positive effects on child poverty as a main reason for policymakers to support expanding it. Now that it looks like the CTC expansion will ...

Western "poverty porn" narratives about India ignore the country's rapid poverty reduction and economic transformation.

Extreme poverty is mainly a rural phenomenon. Four of every five people below the $1.90-a-day international income poverty line lived in rural areas in 2013 (Castañeda and others, 2018). Over the last ...