Michail Moatsos

Jul 16, 2024 | kcl.ac.uk | Michail Moatsos

Billions of dollars in foreign aid could be spent more effectively if international poverty statistics were more accurate, according to new research led by King's College London. Dr Michail Moatsos, a research fellow in the Department of International Development, says current methods for calculating the international poverty line lead to a skewed picture of how poverty is distributed across the world – and this is hampering attempts to eradicate it.

Jul 15, 2024 | nature.com | Michail Moatsos

AbstractWe investigate the current method of derivation of the international poverty line used for monitoring SDG 1 in two key directions: (a) we ask whether the official method used by the World Bank is fit for the purpose of measuring extreme poverty and if their method is defensibly valid both internally and externally; and (b) we ask whether the resulting statistics perform acceptably well in terms of accuracy and precision.

Jun 7, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Michail Moatsos

1 INTRODUCTION Global poverty has spearheaded the United Nations (UN) and World Bank agenda since at least the end of the 1970s. This agenda materialized more concretely in the two recent waves of goals set by the UN, namely the Millennium Development Goals for 2015, and the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030.

May 1, 2024 | equals.ink | Jason Hickel |Michail Moatsos |Dylan Sullivan

Today is a celebration of the hard-won rights for workers around the world but also a reminder that the struggle remains, and even more so, as conditions for many are regressing. In this week’s Bulletin, we’ve analysed new data and found worrying trends in shareholder payouts and wages. While it paints a gloomy picture, there are rays of hope. Read our full press release and methodology note. Record-breaking dividend payouts.

Jan 8, 2024 | phys.org | Dylan Sullivan |Jason Hickel |Michail Moatsos

It has become an article of faith among many economists that China's pro-market reforms of the 1980s and 1990s ushered in a sustained reduction in poverty.