The most extended support of families with children is practiced in the countries of Northern Europe. For example, in Sweden ...

We used to be trapped. And by “we,” I really do mean all of us. A few hundred years ago, the majority of the world lived in extreme poverty, and even in recent decades, people lucky enough to clear ...

Debt is not just a math problem for low income households, it is a form of financial gravity that pulls people deeper every time they try to climb out. I see the same ten forces repeating across ...

Previous research suggests that economy-wide poverty traps are rarely observed in the data. In this paper, we explore a related hypothesis: low-income countries rarely improve their position relative ...

Poverty reduction in India is showing progress. Over 2015–2021, the World Bank reported a decrease in poverty from 60.9 to 46.5 per cent and India's National Institution for Transforming India ...

Matt Bruenig, a writer at the think tank Demos, has a very interesting theory about poverty. He points out that poverty declines as people age. Much of it is simply due to the life cycle of earnings - ...

Nobel Laureate’s address was focused on the second edition of the book, “Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to ...

Over 37.9 million Americans currently live below the poverty line. With more than 11 percent of the American population struggling to afford basic necessities like food, housing, and healthcare, it is ...

I have read “The End of Poverty” by Jeffrey Sachs countless times, and each time I return to the same question: This is powerful but can it really work in practice? My brother, Edwin Musoni, was by ...