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SUBMITTER: Chattopadhyay AK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7732988 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chattopadhyay Amit K AK Kumar T Krishna TK Rice Iain I
Nature communications 20201211 1
Poverty, the quintessential denominator of a developing nation, has been traditionally defined against an arbitrary poverty line; individuals (or countries) below this line are deemed poor and those above it, not so! This has two pitfalls. First, absolute reliance on a single poverty line, based on basic food consumption, and not on total consumption distribution, is only a partial poverty index at best. Second, a single expense descriptor is an exogenous quantity that does not evolve from incom ...[more]