The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the ...

People re-locate for various reasons, both legal and illegal, often risking their lives to escape from political oppression, persecution, war and poverty, as well as to be reunited with family and ...

Our goal is accomplished by supporting graduate student and faculty research, providing undergraduate research opportunities, coordinating a seminar series, and assisting with data management In July ...

Whether as a sponsor or donor, a member or volunteer, or an employee or fellow, you can make a difference. Experiencing poverty during childhood can lead to lasting harmful effects that compromise not ...

This metric relies on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, which determines poverty rates by calculating the share of people in a state whose family or individual income falls below poverty thresholds.

Sept. 24, 2024 Until fairly recently the majority of humanity lived in what we would now consider extreme poverty. Just two centuries ago, about three-quarters of the world were extremely poor.

The multiplier signifying the difference in size between the share of income going to the top 20 percent of households versus that going to the bottom 20 percent of ...

Alaska did not have the highest outright ... [+] poverty rate. But it did experience a shocking increase in poverty among people aged 65 and older from 2012 to 2022. Poverty in the United States ...

Argentina’s poverty rate soared to almost 53% in the first half of the year, official data released on Thursday showed, the first hard evidence of the painful impact of libertarian President ...

About 52.9% of Argentines were mired below the poverty line in the first half of the year, up from 41.7% in the second half of 2023, according to government data published Thursday.

The report for the first half of 2024 showed that 52.9 percent of Argentines, or 15.7 million people, now live in poverty and nearly one in five are indigent. The figure was up from 41.7 percent ...