People generally just don't get what poverty actually means. This is a charge often enough aimed at me and people like me, well off white guys who pontificate upon economics. But those making that ...

Which view of economic inequality has greater merit? The one espoused by Adam Smith, the father figure of capitalism? Or the teaching that unfolds from the Bible's pleadings for justice and ...

Abstract: Relative poverty will become the major issue for poverty alleviation work in the post-2020 period and accordingly we need to define a threshold for evaluating relative poverty. This paper ...

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An additional 50,000 pensioners will be living in relative poverty next year as a result of cuts to the winter fuel payment, the government's own estimates have revealed. Earlier this year, Chancellor ...

Investments on a grand scale in infrastructure in rural regions, such as roads, irrigation, and internet connectivity, help link farmers to markets, boosting incomes Post-1978 reforms helped boost ...

The number of people unable to afford a standard living decreased last year, but relative poverty among single-parent families and absolute poverty both increased. Relative poverty refers to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Almost half of children in single-parent families in the UK were living in relative poverty at the onset of the coronavirus ...

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