Bertha joined us in 2024. She works on poverty, inequality, economic growth, and a range of related topics.
Bertha has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Sheffield and a double M.Sc. in Economic Development and Growth from the University of Warwick and Lund University.
She is also an Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance (London School of Economics)
Contact her if you have questions about these topics or related data, need advice on which data source to use, or have suggestions for new articles or data sources.
Bertha joined us in 2024. She works on poverty, inequality, economic growth, and a range of related topics.
Bertha has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Sheffield and a double M.Sc. in Economic Development and Growth from the University of Warwick and Lund University.
She is also an Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance (London School of Economics)
Contact her if you have questions about these topics or related data, need advice on which data source to use, or have suggestions for new articles or data sources.
Topics covered by Bertha on Our World in Data
In order to make progress against poverty in the future, we need to understand poverty around the world today and how it has changed.
See all our data, visualizations, and writing on economic inequality.
What do governments spend their financial resources on?
May 26, 2025
International dollars are used to compare incomes and purchasing power across countries and over time. Here, we explain how they’re calculated and why they’re used.
December 16, 2024
The experience of poverty goes beyond a very low income. What is the Multidimensional Poverty Index, and how does it capture the diverse ways people experience deprivation?
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