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On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Matthew Ross wrote:
> I know, and seriously speaking, its what Canada declares its poverty
> rate. America set its poverty level relatively high, and Canada followed
> suit.
If you are correct, and every country chooses their own threshold for what
constitutes poverty, then the numbers below have no meaning because we
can't disentangle the threshold choice from the real poorness of the
country. Were you kidding?
Mike
> Other nations:
> Sweden, 2.4
> Slovak Republic, 3.2
> Finland, 3.2
> Czech Republic, 3.4
> Norway, 3.9
> Luxembourg, 4.3
> Belgium, 5.1
> Austria, 5.3
> France, 5.6
> Switzerland, 6.4
> Netherlands, 7.0
> Germany, 8.7
> Hungary, 10.1
> Ireland, 12.4
> Spain, 12.4
> Poland, 12.7
> Canada, 14.7
> United Kingdom, 16.2
> Italy, 19.5%
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