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POVERTY: China: Redrawing the Poverty Line : "The Chinese Government has decided to set the nation's poverty line at an annual per-capita net income of 1500 yuan ($226) starting this year. The new threshold is an increase of 25 percent over the 2008 and 2009 standard of 1196 yuan ...

Redrawing the poverty line Despite the obviously large numbers of people living in poverty , the definition of poverty has been the subject of some debate amongst policy analysts. However, the emerging consensus sees poverty as generally being characterised by the inability of ...