Useful pages and books about poverty
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LINKS to web-resources:
Statistics, maps and other visuals, and pedagogical explanations of definitions and data: Our World in Data project: https://ourworldindata.org/
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Country income group classifications (World Bank)
https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519-world-bank-country-and-lending-groups
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Map: the world by country income groups:
https://datatopics.worldbank.org/world-development-indicators/the-world-by-income-and-region.html
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Handbook of poverty and inequality (World Bank open access book):
https://hdl.handle.net/10986/11985
UNDP: Human development reports and Global Multidimensional poverty index
https://hdr.undp.org/reports-and-publications
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Global price comparisons and calculations of PPP-conversion factors
https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/icp
Photo bank to illustrate teaching about (e.g.) poverty: https://www.menzelphoto.com
(e.g. the collections Hungry Planet, What I Eat and Material World)
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BOOKS about poverty by economists:
Scarcity: why having too little means so much by Eldar Shafir and Sendhil Mullainathan (2013)
Available at Helmet.fi
Development as freedom by Amartya Sen (1999)
The Economics of Poverty by Martin Ravallion (2016, available online)
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POVERTY & INEQUALITY and how it affects wellbeing (links from slides)
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Review article about the links between poverty and mental health (Science, 2020)
https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/2022-09/poverty-depression-anxiety-science.pdf
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Interview with Eldar Shafir about how poverty affects cognitive function and economic decision making:
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2014/02/scarcity
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Discussion of the perceptions of fairness from experiments in economics:
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