A unique analysis of district-level data reveals why inequality is so destructive to the home consumption welfare of people ...

For many people, being poor feels more like an identity or series of experiences than a measure of income. You may feel poor if you've overdrawn your account at the grocery store or spent nights ...

WHAT is poverty, and does it define us? As an anti-austerity campaigner, I often get asked this question. People ask me if I can define it. In reality it’s very difficult to define. There are three ...

Absolute poverty in India, as per World Bank's metric, has been nearly eradicated, dropping to just 1%. The percentage of the ...

People in poverty are said to be ‘socially excluded’. There is no one single definition of poverty. Most official definitions use relative income to measure the extent of poverty. The key UK ...

In Ireland, where I live now, energy poverty has a technical definition: if your household has to spend more than 10% of its income on energy, you are living in energy poverty. This is fairly ...

Of those living in poverty, over 800 million people live in extreme poverty, surviving on less than US $1.25 a day. Skip to main content Toggle navigation Welcome to the United Nations ...