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(ECONOMICS) an official definition of poverty, in which one third of one's income is spent on food. "Food," here, is defined as the most cost-effective way of meeting basic nutritional needs. [The definition] has one advantage, which is that researchers can get comparable [information] about poverty for any country in the world. The disadvantage is that it's arbitrary (why one third? why food? why not shelter, health care, and heating?); the other is that the cost of living varies dramatically in different [neighborhoods] in different cities of different US states, yet the poverty level is the same (expressed in dollar amounts) everywhere in a given country. A better measure is the self-sufficiency standard.
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