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indicators of poverty  

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  • INDICATORS OF POVERTY ARE quantitative measures used to determine whether individuals and households suffer from poverty at various levels of intensity. The nature of these measures depends on such factors as ability to measure them, ideological understanding of poverty, and changing definitions of poverty itself. [Source: Encyclopedia of World Poverty; Indicators of Poverty]

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