Handbook on Poverty Measurement and Policy

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Economist Proposes Measuring Poverty as a Continuous Spectrum to Better Capture Inequality's Impact An economist critiques the traditional use of fixed poverty lines in the United States, which have remained largely unchanged since the 1960s. The piece references Wall Street investor Michael W. Green's late-2025 argument to raise the poverty threshold for a family of four from about $33,000 to $140,000 annually, which generated widespread media discussion. However, the author argues that debates over specific thresholds—whether $33,000, $100,000, or $140,000—miss the point, as no single arbitrary line truly separates poverty from adequacy. Instead, poverty should be viewed as a spectrum, where lower income always means greater hardship without a magical cutoff. The author introduces 'average poverty,' a measure defined as the inverse of average income (expressed in days, hours, or minutes per dollar earned, adjusted for purchasing power). This approach reveals that the U.S. requires an average of 63 minutes to earn $1, far higher than in countries like the UK (34 minutes), France (under 31 minutes), or Germany (about 26 minutes). Despite rising average incomes, average poverty in the U.S. has increased since 1990 due to growing income inequality—the most severe among rich nations. The only exception was a temporary decline during COVID-19 anti-poverty policies. This continuous measure highlights how inequality exacerbates poverty across the income distribution, shifting focus from binary thresholds to broader economic fairness and distribution.

Economist Proposes Measuring Poverty as a Continuous Spectrum to Better Capture Inequality's Impact

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Time-use and Income: A Trivariate Relative Poverty Surface by Franziska Dorn, Kim Sarah Meier, and Simone Maxand

Focus and Research Question: The paper asks how poverty measurement changes when we include not only income, but also time use – especially unpaid work (care, housework) and leisure. It argues that income-only measures can miss important forms of deprivation and develops non-parametric methods to estimate multidimensional poverty thresholds.

Core Idea: Living standards depend on a bundle of money and time: households can sometimes compensate low income with more unpaid work, or compensate time scarcity with spending. The study, therefore, treats poverty as a problem of constrained income–time combinations, not just low income.

Data: The authors use Mexico’s nationally representative 2018 ENIGH survey, which includes income, unpaid work time, and self-reported leisure time. This allows both household-level and individual-level poverty analysis.

📊 Is income alone enough to measure poverty?

New research introduces a trivariate method combining income, unpaid work, and leisure – revealing “hidden” poverty missed by standard measures, especially among women.

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Ruth Maetala, Dignity Pasifik, explaining the KaIkai/Food dimension, enumerator training, Individual Deprivation Measure study, Solomon Islands, 2020. A woman holds up a card that shows a blue picture of a bowl with steam coming out of it.

From idea to impact 🌱➡️🌏

Equality Insights has redefined poverty measurement to reflect real lives and real inequality.

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A History of Transformative Poverty Measurement: The Abridged Story of Equality Insights A History of Transformative Poverty Measurement \n\nFrom groundbreaking research to global impact, our journey has been driven by one goal: making sure everyone is visible in data.\nTake a scroll through the abridged story of Equality Insights and see how we’ve reimagined poverty measurement to be individual, inclusive, and intersectional.\n#GenderData #PovertyMeasurement #EqualityInsights #FeministData

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See the abridged story of Equality Insights - how we’ve reimagined poverty measurement to be individual, inclusive & intersectional.

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Enumerator training for Equality Insights Rapid Survey with Tonga Statistics Department, 2022. A woman sits on the phone while taking notes, while others around her watch the demonstration.

Poverty measurement has come a long way, and Equality Insights has been part of leading that change.

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Further strengthening how we measure global poverty To advance on the World Bank Group’s mission to end poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet, we rely on strong data, which is the bedrock for policy. Strengthening how we measure global poverty ensures we continue moving in the right direction. Find out the latest on how we're better measuring global poverty.

📊 The World Bank has updated global poverty lines—now $3/day for low-income countries—to better reflect today’s costs of basic needs. Accurate data helps us track progress and design smarter policies to end poverty. #PovertyMeasurement #DataForDevelopment
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Workshop on #PovertyMeasurement (PRIN-PNRR research project MYPEOPLE)

🗓️📷 May 8 - 14:30, Aula Morishima #Siena

This semester, we had a conference on poverty methodology and measurement at #Tec_CCM, as well as the right to a healthy environment, presented by the Executive Directors of Coneval. #SomoscSociales #LEC #PovertyMeasurement #EnvironmentalRights