For many people, being poor feels more like an identity or series of experiences than a measure of income. You may feel poor if you've overdrawn your account at the grocery store or spent nights ...

In Thailand, well-being was simply defined as "happiness: it is found in peace and harmony in the mind and in the community." Conversely, poverty and ill-being are the lack of material well-being, ...

Nearly half of the world’s population currently lives in poverty, defined as income of less than US $2 per day, including one billion children. Of those living in poverty, over 800 million ...

The World Bank Group aims to end extreme poverty in the world by 2030, defined as decreasing the percentage of people living on less than $2.15 per day (2017 PPP prices) to no more than 3 percent of ...

An international conference held last week in Santiago de Chile by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL) took a hard look at how poverty is defined in Latin America ...

Thus, Rs 64-a-day is now considered the new poverty line, replacing the infamous Rs 32-a-day one the Rangarajan Committee defined in 2011-12. The SBI report has shifted the poverty line to the ...