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Poverty Line

The minimum yearly income that a person or family needs in order to provide for basic needs. Frequently, a government agency sets the poverty line for a jurisdiction; this line may bear only a rough relationship to one's actual poverty. However, a poverty line is often used to determine eligibility for welfare and other benefit programs.

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It further said, "While options third and fourth can complement the measurement of poverty using a poverty line, they cannot be substitute for it.

Taskforce on poverty to submit report in six months

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.

9.2 million children suffer from poverty

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.

Why focus on poverty definition?

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.

Poverty and inclusive growth in the light of the quintile income statistic

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.

Centre says poverty falls to 21.9 pc

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.

Children face severe poverty

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.

BJP slams Centre over revised poverty line row

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.

When planners mock at India's poor people

This startling affidavit bases its assertion on the findings of the Suresh Tendulkar Committee, which pegged the poverty line at Rs.

Can one survive on Rs 25 a day in India?

Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics calculated poverty lines during HIES-2005 on the basis of Cost of Basic Needs (CBN) method.

Analysis of poverty dynamics: Bangladesh perspective

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.

Poverty lines 1994-2004 new research shows more Australians living in poverty

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.