In their SSIR article on improving poverty measurement, Rourke O’Brien and David Pedulla convincingly argue that both the current official poverty measure and a new “Supplemental Poverty Measure” (SPM ...

The Government of Jamaica is now better equipped to measure and address poverty across the island following the launch of the ...

This fall the U.S. Census Bureau brought good news when it informed us that the nation’s poverty rate had fallen from 13.2 to 12.7 percent. But now more than ever, we should be suspicious of this news ...

The plurality of the official poverty estimates in Italy covers both absolute and relative approaches, ranges from consumption to income-based measures, follows different methodologies and uses ...

In April 2015, Tajikistan introduced a new approach to assessing and measuring poverty that is based on international best-practices and which relies on the quarterly Household Budget Survey.

Traditional measures of poverty have focused on income or expenditure based on a minimum threshold required to purchase a basket of essential goods and services. However, important aspects of ...

New research reveals there are multiple dimensions of deprivation, and those dimensions can impact a person’s sense of financial security. She specifically cites six measures as being a more accurate ...

On September 14th, the Census Bureau will report the official poverty rate for 2020. In a typical year the poverty rate receives widespread attention as a key indicator of well-being in the United ...

Education researchers often use children’s free and reduced-price school lunch status to measure socioeconomic disadvantage in schools. But research published this month in Educational Researcher ...

This paper examines multidimensional poverty in Brazil in 2000 and 2010, based on the microdata of the Demographic Censuses. Our analysis is disaggregated into five classes of municipalities according ...