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 …

This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a …-level investment is also negatively related to several measures of poverty. Overall, our results indicate that firm-level capital … reducing inequality and poverty. Our results may also be beneficial to policy makers as they consider a variety of regulatory …

We review the recent empirical literature on global poverty, focusing on key methodological aspects. These include the … choice of welfare indicator, poverty line and purchasing power parity exchange rates, equivalence scales, data sources, and …-household inequalities and potentially influencing poverty estimates. Based on a sensitivity analysis of global poverty estimates to …

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 …

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