Discover how the International Poverty Line defines global poverty, its critique, and impacts. Learn about its uses and how it differs from the Federal Poverty Level.

The Mexican government on Friday claimed that for the first time in history more  Mexicans are categorized as middle class ...

Some really interesting results from a new NBER working paper “Parametric Estimations of the World Distribution of Income,” by Maxim Pinkovskiy and Xavier Sala-i-Martin (Columbia University): Abstract ...

This would be the cheapest, most efficient way to end extreme poverty, and it would cost about $30 billion per year. But, ...

Posters featuring portraits of several world leaders line a road in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 20, 2025, ahead of the G20 summit to be held there. Credit: AP foto/Themba Hadebe ...

Learn how the poverty gap measures poverty's intensity through income shortfalls from the poverty line, and explore its ...

We are at a critical juncture today in the fight against poverty. Despite decades of hard-won development progress, a world free of poverty remains out of sight. Ten years ago, the outlook appeared ...

Thanks to a renewed push by policymakers and two years of historically high gas prices, renewable energy is an issue that has climbed to the top of our national agenda. But in the United States, the ...

Uberbillioniare entrepreneur Elon Musk has been involved in a Twitter back and forth about global poverty. CNBC sums it up: Elon Musk is now worth more than $300 billion, and he’s apparently ready to ...

Elon Musk is sketching a future in which artificial intelligence and humanoid robots erase material hardship so thoroughly ...