America's official poverty measure is far simpler.

美国官方的贫困量化方式更简单。

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Many countries are using help to farmers as an anti-poverty measure.

很多国家用帮助农民来作为反贫困的措施。

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Whatever the measure, within that massive group, poverty is extremely diverse.

无论如何衡量，在这个庞大的群体中，贫困是极其多样化的。

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Hundreds of indicators are used to measure progress in areas such as education,health,poverty, the environment and trade.

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It is widely reported that New Labour's preferred poverty measure is half of the average national income.

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This absurd result occurs since a relative poverty measure is used, rather than an absolute measure (although these measures are not without their own problems).

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Mr Eberstadt points out that while nutrition, adequate shelter and health care were big problems for the poor when America's poverty measure was devised, the picture is different today.

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