The D-index measures how an opportunity, in this case test scores over a given threshold, would need to be re-allocated across groups such that all groups would be as likely to achieve a test score ...

The Human Opportunity Index (HOI) measures how individual circumstances (i.e., characteristics -- such as place of residence, gender, and education of the household head -- that should not determine ...

Germany has a poverty problem. Despite the country’s vast wealth, the German social security system is failing many people.

The World Bank set its US 'dollar-a-day' poverty line using its 1990 data. Despite many doubts and criticisms, its poverty numbers fell until the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020.Cash measuresThe Bank ...

For its annual flagship Human Development Report in 2010, the UNDP replaced its human poverty index with an MPI constructed at OPHI by Alkire and Maria Emma Santos, now an assistant economics ...

A prominent Nova Scotia lawyer says it is a "borderline human rights violation ... to increase the poverty reduction tax credit and affordable living tax credit and index both to inflation ...