The definition of child poverty used in the Act – relative low income poverty, absolute low income poverty, persistent poverty and material deprivation – have been grossly misrepresented. Critics ...

The criteria of relative poverty is in flux and depends on the economy, unlike absolute poverty. It looks at how many people have been financially left behind, those who can scrape by on the basics ...

I study income poverty indices in a framework considering two poverty lines: one absolute line capturing subsistence and one relative line capturing social exclusion. In this framework, a set of basic ...

Differences in collective bargaining coverage explain about one-third of the differences in relative poverty across most of the industrialized world. You can change the labour conversation. Chip in to ...

In 2023, these figures stood at 20.2 percent and 2.7 percent of the population, respectively. Last year, approximately 274,800 people were living in relative poverty, which is nearly 29,000 fewer than ...