For this week's Indicators of the Week, Darian is joined by NPR colleagues Jeff Guo and Sydney Lupkin. We get into the latest numbers on child poverty in the U.S. and what it tells us about ...

The Nobel Prize in economics was awarded Monday to three researchers — including the youngest-ever recipient — whose approach to alleviating global poverty has been widely adopted in the field ...

Three professors, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, both of M.I.T., and Michael Kremer of Harvard, were honored. By Jeanna Smialek Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of M.I.T. and Michael Kremer ...

THE MOST important question in economics is also the hardest: why do some countries stay poor while others grow rich? In 2015, 10% of the world’s population lived on less than $1.90 per day ...