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world bank poverty lines  

Definition

  • Poverty is widely acknowledged to be a multidimensional concept. The biggest controversies when measuring poverty are related to the method of determining the level of satisfaction of needs considered desirable or the manner of understanding poverty. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty; World Bank Poverty Lines]

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