Sentence examples for poverty yardstick from inspiring English sources

The decline is still impressive — about one-sixth — when measured with Britain's own poverty yardstick, a target that is much harder to meet.

The Census Bureau developed an alternative poverty measure to address the shortcomings of its half-century-old traditional poverty yardstick.

Originally derived from a U.S. Department of Agriculture Household Food Consumption Survey in 1955, Census determines the yardstick poverty threshold by multiplying the subsistence food budget by three while only counting income and cash assistance.

The O.E.C.D.'s report examined relative poverty, using as its yardstick the percentage of each country's population earning less than half of that country's median wage.

There is a definite link between economic factors and farmer-suicide, according to Gutierrez et al. They demonstrated that farm size and yield - the yardsticks of poverty and risk - as well as the acreage cultivated, and persistent insecticide application, are the true culprits.

The town didn't look poor by any conventional yardsticks of poverty.

The unraveling of a society's institutions, stability and reasonable order does not sound alarms to forewarn the citizenry, apart from economic yardsticks measuring poverty, jobs, wages, health, savings, profits and  other matters economic.

This is the yardstick by which poverty reduction in poor countries is measured.

Many failed asylum seekers are living on less than "a dollar a day", the global yardstick for extreme poverty, it claims.

That is why many say the federal poverty guidelines are a "statistical yardstick rather than a complete description of what people and families need to live".

NEW YORK (RNS) Prominent religious, humanitarian and ethical leaders gave mixed grades this week to progress on meeting the United Nations Millennium Development Goalss (MDG), the global yardsticks on fighting poverty.