Comments on: Should poverty be defined by a single international poverty line, or country by country? (and what difference does it make?) https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/should-poverty-be-defined-by-a-single-international-poverty-line-or-country-by-country-and-what-difference-does-it-make/ How active citizens and effective states can change the world Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:33:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: brad https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/should-poverty-be-defined-by-a-single-international-poverty-line-or-country-by-country-and-what-difference-does-it-make/#comment-3920 Fri, 10 May 2013 04:37:32 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=11024#comment-3920 The popular outrage over the official definition of poverty at abysmally low levels of daily income, of Rs 26 in rural areas and Rs 32 in urban areas, assumes the state will deny basic services to a household whose income is above the figure. This is totally erroneous. There is no mechanism in the hands of the government to ascertain income or expenditure to identify the ‘poor’ on the ground.

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