The poverty rate in Mexico has declined from 49.9% of the population in 2018 to 43.5% in 2022, according to a study published Thursday by the country’s poverty analysis agency. The study by the agency ...

The idea that a family earning six figures could still feel poor sounds absurd until you start tallying rent, child care, ...

One analysis suggests that modern budgets push the effective poverty line far above official levels, revealing why many six-figure earners still feel financially strained.

The claim that a family needs six figures just to avoid poverty sounds like a provocation, but it is rooted in a detailed ...

One of the federal government’s key indicators of economic distress – one that shows that rural counties are disproportionately suffering economically – is disguising persistent, intergenerational ...

Poverty has long been linked to shorter lives. But just how many deaths in the United States are associated with poverty? The number has been elusive – until now. UC Riverside paper published Monday ...

Partial Order Theory offers a powerful mathematical framework to compare objects when complete numerical aggregation is either impractical or misleading. In the context of multidimensional poverty ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation Following the adoption by the international community of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) approach, which ...

Ever since India moved to a high growth trajectory in the 1980s, poverty rates have consistently declined over time. Until now. A Mint analysis of the consumption expenditure numbers reported by the ...