As the world grows wealthier and extreme poverty becomes more concentrated, there are legitimate questions over whether $1.90 is too low to define whether someone is poor in all countries of the world ...

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

The Poverty and Social Exclusion (PSE:UK) project provides policy makers with impartial, accurate and reliable evidence with which to measure poverty. "Poverty is not simply about living on low ...

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 ...

Share of those falling under the 'vulnerable' category has dropped to 15 per cent from over 50 per cent 12 years ago ...

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 ...