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Poverty: Environmental Link

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What is poverty? This is a critical factor; defining poverty is not an easy task. There will always be disagreement over what constitutes a poverty income. Some analysts define poverty in terms of the amount of income necessary to provide a family of a certain size with the minimum essentials of food, clothing, shelter, and education. This approach provides an standard. An absolute poverty standard establishes a specific income level for a given-size household below which the household is judged to be living in a state of poverty.

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    European Community, Council Decision, 19 December 1984.

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    Details of the Welfare Monitoring Surveys are reported in the Economic Survey 1997 and have been extensively used in this study. The Appendix of this study contains the findings of these surveys.

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    EPA 1986, Sect 2(a).

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    EPCA 1999, Sect 528, Definitions.

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  1. Professor of International Economics, Doshisha University, Karasuma-dori, Kamidachiuri-agaru, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto, 602-0898, Japan

    Nathaniel O. Agola

  2. Department of Spatial Sciences, Curtin University, Kent Street, Bentley, WA, 6102, Australia

    Joseph L. Awange

  3. Geodetic Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karksruhe, Germany

    Joseph L. Awange

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Agola, N.O., Awange, J.L. (2014). Poverty: Environmental Link. In: Globalized Poverty and Environment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39733-2_1

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