It further said, "While options third and fourth can complement the measurement of poverty using a
poverty line, they cannot be substitute for it.
However, "the upper
poverty line", which represents families most likely to be exposed to poverty, reached EGP 5,066 per year, or EGP 13.9 per day.
Though the latest official figures are not available, 50 percent of the people today are believed to be living below the
poverty line. More importantly, differences in per capita income across regions have persisted or widened as have gender gaps in education and health.
The identification exercise is concerned with specifying an income '
poverty line' designed to distinguish the poor segment of a population from its non-poor segment.
The commission calculates its
poverty line through the Tendulkar methodology, which uses implicit prices derived from quantity and value data collected in household consumer expenditure surveys.
It is estimated that while 15.3% of the whole population is in severe poverty, 18.3% of Namibian children suffers severe poverty and 34% of all children find themselves below the upper
poverty line.
Addressing a news conference here, Sitharaman slammed the government for the revised
poverty line which she alleged the government did using old data, while referring to a news conference of October 3 by Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh and Deputy Chief of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
Coming from none other than the Planning Commission, a high-profile body of experts charged with the task of guiding the country out of poverty into sustainable well being, the
poverty line was found to be politically and economically indefensible.
This startling affidavit bases its assertion on the findings of the Suresh Tendulkar Committee, which pegged the
poverty line at Rs.
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics calculated
poverty lines during HIES-2005 on the basis of Cost of Basic Needs (CBN) method.
The latest research by the SPRC found that in 2004, 9.9% of Australians lived below the lowest of these
poverty lines, the '50% of median income'
poverty line.
Thus, official
poverty lines as well as the estimates were revised (5) from 32.1 percent to 34.5 percent in 2001-02 using lower
poverty line of Rs 723 which seems to be in line with the findings of Anwar and Qureshi (2003), Anwar, et al.