Updating the Definitions and Methods of Measuring Poverty

Other sources of poverty data (Luxembourg Income Study, UNICEF and OECD) use a poverty threshold of 50% of the median income and their estimates are consequently higher. The OECD reports US poverty in 2003 at 17.1% and child poverty at 21.7%. New Zealand’s poverty rate in 2003 was 10.4% and child poverty was 16.3%. (OECD, 2005) TABLE 2 ................
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