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The basic questions concerning poverty relate to the incidence and the intensity of the phenomenon. What is the proportion of poor people to the population as a whole? How far, on average, are the living standards of the poor below the minimum threshold for that particular society?
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Carbonaro, G. (1990). Global Indicators of Poverty. In: Dagum, C., Zenga, M. (eds) Income and Wealth Distribution, Inequality and Poverty. Studies in Contemporary Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84250-4_17
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