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- National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) - Uses demographic research and program and policy analyses to identify and promote strategies that reduce young child poverty and that improve the lives of poor young children. "There are over 14 million children living in poverty in the United States. More than 5 million of them are under age six. The young child poverty rate is significantly higher in the United States than in other Western industrialized nations."
- Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy - Publishes articles from law professors and practitioners in poverty-related fields as well as student research, works from scholars in poverty-related disciplines, and the "voices" of persons living in poverty. Site includes archive, editor and staff listing, and submission information.
- World Bank PovertyNet - Information about poverty, its assessment, its impacts, and initiatives to reduce poverty internationally. Includes a special collection of the "literature of poverty."
- Causes of Poverty - Categorizes the types of causes for poverty.
- Development Gateway - Poverty Reduction - Portal site with reports, links, bulletin board and other resources focusing on poverty reduction and development.
- Poverty Guidelines, Research, and Measurement - Overview of the official methodology used to calculate poverty in the United States from the US Department of Health and Human Services.
- India Together - Urban Poverty Alleviation - A study on how issues around poverty can be tackled in cities.
- The Causes of Poverty - Contains information of the causes of poverty, its impact, economic democracy, and facts and statistics.
- Combat Poverty Agency (Ireland) - State agency working for the prevention and elimination of poverty and social exclusion in Ireland. It is a small organization set up under the Combat Poverty Agency Act 1986.
- US Census Bureau - Poverty - Official statistics on poverty in the United States.
Wikipedia Articles
- Secondary poverty - Secondary poverty is a descripton of poverty created by Seebohm Rowntree after his investigations into poverty in York. Secondary poverty was the term he coined for those living below his poverty line whose income was sufficient for them to live above the line but was spent on things other than the necessities of life.
- Poverty reduction - Poverty reduction (or poverty alleviation) is any process which seeks to reduce the level of poverty in a community, or amongst a group of people or countries. Poverty reduction programs may be aimed at economic or non-economic poverty.
- Culture of poverty - The culture of poverty concept is a social theory explaining the cycle of poverty. Based on the concept that the poor have a unique value system, the culture of poverty theory suggests the poor remain in poverty because of their adaptations to the burdens of poverty.
- Poverty in Malaysia - Poverty in Malaysia is a controversial economic issue. The definition of poverty and the poverty line for Malaysians has been disputed, and government policies to address poverty such as the Malaysian New Economic Policy have been met with political protest.
- Poverty threshold - The poverty threshold, or poverty line, is the minimum level of income deemed necessary to achieve an adequate standard of living. In practice, like the definition of poverty, the official or common understanding of the poverty line is significantly higher in developed nations than in developing countries.