The recently launched Policy Research Report 2014: A Measured Approach to Ending Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity: Concepts, Data, and the Twin Goals makes an urgent call for better and more ...

The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration, developed a method to measure how many families were unable to afford ...

The unique experience of the urban poor has helped initiate a reconfiguration of poverty definitions, led by Amartya Sen‟s capabilities approach. Countless poverty alleviation programs have since ...