The researchers believe their analysis is the first step toward uncovering "nuanced dynamics." Researchers issue warning ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Latin American poverty levels in 2023 fell to a 33-year low, led by progress in Brazil, the United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said in ...

“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 ...

Figure 4b: The poorest regions are furthest behind and contribute more to the Global Prosperity Gap relative to their population in 2024 Figure 5: Limited gains in the Global Gap due to a slowdown of ...

One of out of every three Lebanese have fallen into poverty in 2022 BEIRUT, May 23, 2024 — Poverty in Lebanon has more than tripled over the past decade reaching 44% of the total population, according ...

When in 2022 the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released figures indicating that at least 63% of people living in the country, about 133 million persons, were multidimensionally poor, fresh ...

The number of Oregonians living in poverty remained historically low in 2023, according to newly released federal data, and the state’s median household incomes continued to rise. That extends a long ...

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 ...

Digital technologies have the potential to either ameliorate or worsen the dynamics underlying poverty and inequality, depending on how those technologies are designed, developed, deployed, and used, ...

South African is starting a “national dialogue” Friday that is meant to bring all sectors of society together to discuss the country’s most pressing issues and find solutions. The talks, initiated by ...

Bangladesh is the latest country to erupt in protests over economic conditions. In July, students took to the streets to protest the country's Supreme Court decision to reinstate a quota system for ...