Jamaica’s multidimensional poverty index, escaping the economic KPI trap—Keenan Falconer

After several years in gestation, the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) recently launched Jamaica’s Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), which is intended to provide a complementary measure to ...
USA Today

Kids' brains may develop better in states with more generous safety net programs, study finds

Generous anti-poverty programs may help narrow gaps in mental health and brain development between children living in low- versus high-income households, a new study finds. The analysis, published in ...
World Bank

How Do We Support the World’s Poorest Countries? | The Development Podcast

[02:25] Story from the ground: Climate resilience and job prospects in Kiribati [06:46] IDA: How it was created, how it works, where it gets its cash from? [00:00] Raka Banerjee: Hello and welcome to ...
The New York Times

We Need a New Global Measure for Poverty

Illustration by The New York Times. Photograph by Getty Images. By Max Roser Graphics by Sara Chodosh Mr. Roser is the founder of Our World in Data and a professor at the University of Oxford’s ...
Dawn

Psychology of poverty

“Poverty is an ethical concept, not a statistical one”. — John Wall, World Bank, 2006 IN nuclear-powered Pakistan nearly 40-50 per cent of the country’s 240 million people live below or around the ...