poverty line
(Redirected from below the poverty line)
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Noun
[edit]poverty line (plural poverty lines)
- (economics) The threshold of poverty, below which one's income does not cover necessities.
- 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 11:
- America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Translations
[edit]threshold of poverty
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