People generally just don't get what poverty actually means. This is a charge often enough aimed at me and people like me, well off white guys who pontificate upon economics. But those making that ...

Abstract: Relative poverty will become the major issue for poverty alleviation work in the post-2020 period and accordingly we need to define a threshold for evaluating relative poverty. This paper ...

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Ladywell, in Birmingham, has the highest levels, with 62% of children living in relative poverty. In some areas of Leeds, ...

An additional 50,000 pensioners will be living in relative poverty next year as a result of cuts to the winter fuel payment, the government's own estimates have revealed. Earlier this year, Chancellor ...

According to data from Statistics Estonia, the proportion of people living in relative and absolute poverty in Estonia has decreased compared to 2022. However, perceived deprivation has increased. In ...

Don Boudreaux is getting mad with people who seem to be incapable of distinguishing between poverty and inequality. They are different and they need to be treated as different things. Most importantly ...

The number of people unable to afford a standard living decreased last year, but relative poverty among single-parent families and absolute poverty both increased. Relative poverty refers to a ...

Which view of economic inequality has greater merit? The one espoused by Adam Smith, the father figure of capitalism? Or the teaching that unfolds from the Bible's pleadings for justice and ...

China will shift its focus to reduce "relative poverty" after achieving the goal of eliminating absolute poverty this year, according to a poverty expert. "Relative poverty refers to a living standard ...

A Conservative councillor sparked a debate over child poverty after admitting he had never heard the term ‘relative poverty’. Ayrshire and Arran NHS Board was discussing a report that stated that more ...