Poverty

Poor girls aren't condemned to pregnancy, poverty

25 May 2012

"Why is the teen birth rate in the United States so high, and why does it matter?" Those questions are posed in the title of a new paper in the Journal of Economic Perspectives getting a good deal of applause on the Internet.

Poverty standard rises to record high

25 May 2012

Before 2008, there were two standards for poverty-relief projects in China. In 1986, the absolute poverty line was set at income of 206 yuan ($32.70) per annum.

India to revisit poverty estimates

24 May 2012

Facing flak for its flip-flop on poverty estimates and for allegedly scaling down poverty estimates, India's Planning Commission today set up a new five-member expert panel to identify the poor and re .....