There is plenty on offer for grown-ups in the Young V&A’s latest exhibition ‘Making Egypt’, but what really is the point of ...

HOUSING is famously cramped in the Asian financial hub of Hong Kong, thanks to sky-high property prices, but a single toilet ...

Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising new titles — fiction and nonfiction — to consider in February.

Miley, a film scholar, examines those and many other works as they affect (and are affected by) other great classics of American culture, from literature (“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte ...

How do you define poverty? Is poverty being underestimated in India? P.C. Mohanan: We had a stable definition of poverty from the late 1970s to 2005. We started with the expenditure required for ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) is an important program for the government’s bid to bring down poverty rates in the country, 1-Pacman party-list Rep.

The official rate of Canadians 65 and older living in poverty is six per cent. But the number could be more than double that, new research warns.

The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration, developed a method to measure how many families were unable to afford ...

Investopedia / Daniel Fishel The federal poverty level (FPL) is an economic measure used to decide whether the income level of an individual or family qualifies them for certain federal benefits ...