People experience poverty differently even within the same household. Traditional measures haven’t been able to capture variations because the surveys stop at the household level. Measuring poverty as ...

Data: National Women's Law Center calculations based on Census Bureau, Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplements data. Chart: Axios Visuals A broad measure of poverty for ...

Roger Valdez writes about housing economics and policy. The measure of poverty in the United States, a basic basket of essential food items, hasn't changed ... [+] in almost 60 years. One other ...

So global poverty is nearly over? That depends on whether you accept the World Bank’s IPL. The content of the IPL is dubious to say the least. Unlike many national lines, it is not based on any direct ...

The World Bank’s measure takes inspiration and guidance from other prominent global multidimensional measures, particularly the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) developed by the United Nations ...

There is no single best measure of poverty. It is a complex problem that needs a range of measures telling us different ...

The Green Party is appalled with the Government's new child poverty targets that are based on a new 'persistent poverty' measure that could be met ...

Those who are deprived of two or more of the seven basic need indicators are defined as being in 'absolute poverty'. This method of measuring absolute poverty and deprivation was used in a major ...

What was remarkable about that study was that it was the first time that child poverty in the developing world had been estimated on a scientific basis. The team’s method, known around the world as ...

Hong Kong’s labour minister has said using a poverty line to measure inequality was “inadequate,” after pausing the ...

Another metric, the supplemental poverty measure, aims to improve the approach to measuring income and poverty in the U.S. with updated methods and data. In 2017, the supplemental poverty measure ...

Our understanding of poverty is usually based on two measures – absolute and relative poverty. ‘Relative’ counts anybody earning below 60% of the median wage. It is a measure of people who have fallen ...