Poverty threshold

The article substantiates the idea that increasing social inequality and persistent large-scale poverty in post-Soviet Russia should be considered as one of the main reasons for the low birth rate in the country and a serious challenge to ensuring its demographic security. The authors propose a concept of demographic security and outline its primary indicators and their threshold values—the methodological basis for diagnosing and forecasting demographic processes from the perspective of Russia’s national and economic security.

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The aim of this study were the following: (1) testing whether ARVI (Atmospherically Resistant Vegetation Index) is used for forest cover mapping and change detection compared to NDVI (Normalised Difference Vegetation Index) in Lac Duong District, Lam Dong Province, (2) defining the ARVI-based thresholds for land covers mapping using Sentinel-2 data from 2016 to 2022, (3) identifying drivers of land cover change during the period of 2016-2022.

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This is the important basis for making policies of durable poverty reduction, step by step reducing the insufficiencies among regions and population groups, and enhancing the efficiency of aid policies. The article refers to some concepts, approach and indexes of poverty measure by multidimensional approach.

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Both the definition of poverty and the poverty thresholds have been criticized on grounds that they do not accurately reflect families true financial resources, nor the amount of money families actually need to be economically self-sufficient. 20 Estimates of minimum income levels required for families to achieve basic economic self-sufficiency range around twice the federal poverty thresholds. 21 Based on the official poverty definitions, in 2007 (the latest year for which data are available), 37.3 million people (12.

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The official definition of poverty for the U.S. population uses money income before taxes and does not include capital gains or noncash benefits (such as public housing, Medicaid, and SNAP). The definition is based roughly on historical estimates of the portion of an average household’s income required to purchase a “minimally nutritious diet” (about 30% in the early 1960s).

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