compared to the Official Poverty Measure and gives policymakers clearer picture of the outcome of government programs. Measuring poverty is a complex and comprehensive...

causes and effects. When evaluating poverty in statistics or economics there are two main measures: absolute poverty compares income against the amount...

there is no ideal measure of well-being, arguing that all measures of poverty are imperfect. That is not to say that measuring poverty should be avoided;...

poverty measure. The NRC convened a panel, which published a 1995 report Measuring Poverty: A New Approach that concluded that the official poverty measure...

of measuring multidimensional poverty developed by OPHI's Sabina Alkire and James Foster. Building on the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measures, it...

Poverty reduction, poverty relief, or poverty alleviation is a set of measures, both economic and humanitarian, that are intended to permanently lift people...

Poverty in India remains a major challenge despite overall reductions in the last several decades as its economy grows. According to an International...

between different years. It is therefore a measure of absolute poverty and is not measuring relative poverty. It is also not designed to capture how people...

decline in poverty from 36% to 28%, but higher poverty rates in certain areas. Different groups proposed different methods of measuring poverty, but the...

The culture of poverty is a concept in social theory that asserts that the values of people experiencing poverty play a significant role in perpetuating...