Sentence examples for measures of poverty from inspiring English sources
Start with the two alternative measures of poverty based on income.
Child mortality, school enrolment and the like have improved more slowly than have straight measures of poverty.
Their exposure to "concentrated disadvantage" — an index that factors in several measures of poverty — fell by half a standard deviation.
For years the Census Bureau has published several alternative measures of poverty, at least one of which is based on National Academy of Sciences data.
It gives no detail of how it would achieve this, but suggests that long-thwarted plans to change the current official measures of poverty would go ahead.
Even under new measures of poverty that account for seniors' high medical spending, poverty rates among children have surpassed deprivation among the old.
No comprehensive measure of poverty, for example, exists.
No surprise at Duncan Smith deploying Jesuitical corkscrew arguments to duck the international measure of poverty.
Indeed, a good measure of poverty should register the impact of major public policies.
The first is that it is impossible to find a single measure of poverty.
Pity, because this measure of poverty excludes all forms of wealth that cannot be assessed in monetary terms.
