We study the reasons for rising in-work poverty in the 25 years up to the pandemic.

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation The paper presents estimates of poverty [extreme poverty PPP$1.9 and PPP$3.2] and consumption inequality in India for each ...

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) replaced the failed social program Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) with a block grant program, ...

Piracy is widely seen as something illegitimate, something that is not to be attempted by those who’d prefer to always remain on the right side of the law. However, as Torrentfreak reported, a new ...

A Nepalese immigrant in his early 40s described the stress and uncertainty he felt during college about how to afford rent, food and tuition despite having a scholarship. A man of Hmong origin in his ...

The idea that many Americans might be living on less than $2 a day once sounded almost impossible; that was supposed to be what poverty meant in the developing world, not a rich nation like the United ...