Poverty
Why do we tolerate poverty?
It’s bad reasoning, not human nature, that blinds us to the predicament of the poor
Immigration: Wandering dukes from the east
Why we should be alarmed about the Roma
Win tickets: Amartya Sen on ‘poverty and the tolerance of the intolerable’ at LSE
This your chance to see the Nobel Prize-winning economist deliver a lecture on the challenges facing today's anti-poverty campaigners
Poverty, the market and the state
The most important lesson we can learn from recent history is that putting equality at the top of the agenda won't eliminate poverty, it might make it more widespread
Free download: Poverty in the UK
The current levels of poverty are neither acceptable nor inevitable for a country as rich as the UK, so what should be done about it?
A C Grayling: What is poverty?
The existence of absolute poverty today points to the indifference of many in the rich world
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth and the Origins of Inequality by Angus Deaton
Large scale poverty is the result of political and organisational failures
The way we were: Strivers and shirkers
Extracts from memoirs and diaries
If I ruled the world: Henning Mankell
Everyone should be able to read this column—I'd use my powers to eradicate illiteracy
Egypt’s forgotten heartland
Rural Egypt has provided crucial support for Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. Will rising poverty lead to disillusionment?
The information
GCSE performance and ethnicity
How slums can save the planet
Sixty million people in the developing world are leaving the countryside every year. The squatter cities that have emerged can teach us much about future urban living