Closing the season, the Nobel economics prize is handed out on Monday with specialists on credit, the role of government, and wealth inequality seen as possible contenders. The winner of the ...

The number of Americans living in poverty, according to the nation's official definition, fell slightly to about 36.8 million in 2023, the Census Bureau announced on Sept. 10, 2024. The data released ...

Creek Street, the historic boardwalk in Ketchikan, Alaska. Alaska did not have the highest outright poverty rate. But it did experience a shocking increase in poverty among people aged 65 and older ...

Bangladesh presents a discomforting policy puzzle. The economy has continued to grow, yet poverty has been rising.

Bangladesh faces slowing economic growth, rising poverty, persistent inflation and banking instability, while billions spent ...

We introduce interesting papers on human behavior and decision-making from the fields of behavioral economics and psychology.

Despite Bolsa Familia’s accomplishments, it will never be enough by itself to solve poverty in Brazil. Surprisingly, this is a well-known fact that both Lula and the World Bank acknowledge. As the ...

The number of Americans living in poverty, according to the nation’s official definition, fell slightly to about 36.8 million in 2023, the Census Bureau announced on September 10, 2024. The data ...

Researchers from the University of Zurich and Wuhan University have assessed how solar energy resources affect social and economic development to reduce poverty in China, using empirical data from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I think the most interesting aspect of this report is the different directions the two measures of poverty went in 2023. On one ...