It has often been said that the world’s aggregate poverty gap—the total monetary amount by which all poor people fall below the poverty line—is modest when one uses poverty lines typical of low-income ...

The gap in monthly per capita consumption expenditure ... reflecting the narrowing of economic disparities. In terms of poverty reduction, the report highlights a major decrease in poverty ...

This dashboard presents the trends in the poverty rate, the poverty gap, and the severity index under various poverty lines for the countries and sub-regions of LAC. The poverty lines include the ...

Data from report shows that safety nets—which include cash, in-kind transfers, social pensions, public works, and school feeding programs targeted to poor and vulnerable households—also lower ...

Professor Evan Kontopantelis, lead author of The Lancet Public Health paper published today, says the data reveals a profoundly concerning gap in mortality between the North and the South, especially ...

The national median self-rated poverty gap, or the average amount of additional income that families say they need, remained at P5,000 from September 2024 to December 2024. The SWS was conducted ...

Rural Poverty has staged a significant 440-basis ... which is the prime reason for the incrementally shrinking horizontal income gap between the rural and urban landscape and the vertical income ...