Talk 1: Relative deprivation theory (Professor David Gordon) Talk 2: Human rights and child poverty: past, present and future of child poverty measurement (Enrique Delamonica) Talk 3: Poverty as ...

The recently launched Policy Research Report 2014: A Measured Approach to Ending Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity: Concepts, Data, and the Twin Goals makes an urgent call for better and more ...

The poor often behave in less capable ways, which can further perpetuate poverty. We hypothesize that poverty directly impedes cognitive function and present two studies that test this hypothesis.

Although not the first to argue that environment affects the chances of committing crime, in the 1950s American criminologist Robert Merton argued that where people are denied the opportunity to ...