Getting the measure of disadvantage

Crawford receives $9.5 million to develop a new measure of poverty.

Finding pathways out of poverty

Bridging the economic divide.

Progress on poverty

Are social protection programs helping those most in need?

The unkindest cut

Will cuts to social security lead to higher poverty and increased inequality?

A Herculean task?

Improving sanitation in developing countries.

Poverty in a time of prosperity

Australia's household economic fortunes.

Growing solutions, harvesting answers

How can policymakers ensure adequate and stable supply of food, especially to the world's poorest people? That's one of the big questions to be addressed by the new Food Policy Institute.

Asia's energy and food security challenges

Greater regional co-operation is required to ensure Asia's future energy and security challenges are met, write TOM KOMPAS and QUENTIN GRAFTON.

Scoring the Millennium Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals are both too ambitious and not ambitious enough, writes TERENCE WOOD.