In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …

, and Nutrition / Frankenberg, Elizabeth / Thomas, Duncan -- 2. Poverty and Cognitive Function / Dean, Emma Boswell … / Schilbach, Frank / Schofield, Heather -- Comment on Chapters 1 and 2 / Hoddinott, John -- II. Psychology of Poverty, Hope, and …. Hope as Aspirations, Agency, and Pathways. Poverty Dynamics and Microfinance in Oaxaca, Mexico / Lybbert, Travis J …

How do aspirations influence investment decisions for people living in poverty? Does this change as peoples economic … similar effects to cash alone, potentially because cash raises aspirations. Thus, helping people living in poverty set higher …

political debate surrounding poverty. Policy changes included a radical shift in welfare policy, a sizable expansion in supports … plummeted, work rose dramatically among single parents, and poverty was reduced. At the same time, there are indications that …

Scholars emphasize that poverty in Britain has risen sharply since the late 1970s. Meanwhile in the United States, both … official figures and traditional poverty scholars report sharp declines in poverty. We seek to provide a comparison of poverty …, or policy-account for the observed changes in poverty in the two nations and what role could policy play in reducing …