Learn how to use the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP), the interactive computational tool that offers users quick access to the World Bank’s estimates of poverty, inequality, and shared ...

Federal Minister Ahsan Iqbal says Pakistan’s rising poverty stems from economic instability between 2018 and 2022. The issue matters because poverty now affects nearly 29 percent of the population and ...

“Inequality is bad for economic growth and bad for poverty reduction. In the past researchers were not able to exactly quantify the effect of inequality in the context of economic shocks. This graph ...

Pakistan faces a daunting economic scenario with poverty hitting a record high of 29% and income inequality at its worst in nearly three decades. A government survey highlights the pressing economic ...

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 ...

Eleni Abraham Yitbarek is affiliated with Partnership for Economic Policy (Research Fellow) Kehinde Oluwaseun Omotoso is affiliated with DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Social Policy, College of Graduate ...

This lecture examines the empirical relationship between economic inequality and poverty across countries and over time, paying attention to different measurement issues. It then considers a range of ...

The Lao PDR’s fiscal system is currently not enabling the government to fulfil its policy commitments or maintain economic stability, reports released by the World Bank today said. While a high debt ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Josie Cox is a New York-based journalist covering business and gender. Jan 14, 2025, 09:10pm EST The research comes just ahead of ...

Throughout history, peoples have migrated from one place to another, prompted by different factors and using different means to reach their destinations. Migration has therefore long been a topic of ...