This ground-breaking study on the measurement of poverty shows how policy in this field has taken a wrong turn with … disastrous results.In recent years, poverty has generally been understood in ‘relative' terms. That is, people are regarded as … poor if they earn less than some benchmark relative to average earnings. One perverse result of such relative poverty …

Global GDP is more than 100 trillion dollars, yet 10% of the world's population still live in extreme poverty on less … than $1.90 per day. No one should have to live like that: alleviating poverty is a minimal moral obligation implied by … world to each poor person would eliminate extreme poverty directly and at negligible cost. It is the least we should do …

The eradication of poverty as the main target of Sustainable Development Goal 1 by 2030 is the subject of this paper … related to poverty as a multidimensional concept. Further, the paper investigate concept of poverty and gives overview poverty … poverty has also a spatial dimension in all these countries. As part of this paper, the issues of the situation with poverty …

prosperity using 'inequality lines'. Analogous to poverty lines but focused on inequality, inequality lines are benchmark incomes … contrast to the B40 approach and all conventional poverty lines, inequality lines arise naturally: their location in the income … important domestic trade-offs between inequality reduction and poverty alleviation. …

The recent COVID-19 pandemic and the expected increase in global crises threaten to push millions into poverty … multidimensional approach to poverty alleviation and prevention through livelihood and resilience-based programming …

but because some people lacked entitlements to that food. Is a similar situation now the case for global poverty, meaning … that national resources are available but not being used to end poverty? This paper argues that approximately three …-quarters of global poverty, at least at the lower poverty lines, could now be eliminated — in principle — via redistribution of …

ication of a poverty line or particular poverty measures . The paper introduces three alternative principles of targeting …

poverty line remain vulnerable to shocks that could place them back into poverty. These are the groups that require social …

poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are … stated. The second objective is to take stock of child poverty and changes in child poverty in the majority of OECD countries … formulate a number of suggestions for the setting of credible targets for the elimination of child poverty in the rich countries …