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... > contexts > population characteristics > socioeconomic factors > poverty > measurements and definitions of poverty > relative-income-based measures of poverty

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relative-income-based measures of poverty  

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  • RELATIVE INCOME MEASURES of poverty typically identify the poor as being below a specific income threshold, such as 50 or 60 percent of the median income, for the country in which they live. The median income is the income figure that divides a society's income distribution into equal parts such that half of the population have incomes above the median and the other half have incomes below. [Source: Encyclopedia of World Poverty; Relative-Income-Based Measures of Poverty]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-GD9P607D-S

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