New York, 17 October 2025 – Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty – 887 million out of 1.1 billion globally – are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, ...

It is often argued that indicators of achievement or deprivation should be measured such that they display a property of 'level-sensitivity', whereby a given change in the indicator acquires a greater ...

17 October 2022 - A flagship UN poverty study released on Monday, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty finds that significant poverty reduction is possible, and new ways of calculating ...

Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty – 887 million out of 1.1 billion globally – are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, drought, or air pollution, ...

Our goal is accomplished by supporting graduate student and faculty research, providing undergraduate research opportunities, coordinating a seminar series, and assisting with data management In July ...

The United Nations Development Programme has released its 2019 Multidimensional Poverty Index which highlights the number of people around the world experiencing poverty at regional, national and ...

According to the 2022 Multidimensional Poverty Index report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), 75.6 per cent of ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson launched the War on Poverty in 1964. Fifty years later, the faces and dynamics of child poverty in the United States have changed dramatically, but the nation's approach to ...

Poverty and all its related concerns require so much mental energy that the poor have less remaining brainpower to devote to other areas of life, according to research based at Princeton University.