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food-ratio poverty line  

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  • A PRIVATE CONSUMPTION-BASED method of determining poverty, food-ratio lines draw from the proportion of a household's money that is spent on food to calculate official poverty levels. It is a method, though alternately used by various nations, to distinguish between the poor and nonpoor on an estimated basis of what ratio of a household's income is spent maintaining a sustainable diet. [Source: Encyclopedia of World Poverty; Food-Ratio Poverty Line]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/food-ratio_poverty_line

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