How poor is ‘poor’? Towards a rights-based poverty line

Poverty is usually defined by the ‘$1-a-day' line developed by the World Bank. But does definition this tell the whole story? This report argues that we need a broader approach, based on human rights, which takes into account actual living standards.
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