| mrstickball said: What I'd like is a comparative analysis of living standards among those defined as in 'poverty' by the major nations. It may help define the argument a bit better. |
Yeah, i've been looking. No luck.
That's always the issue with those UN global studies too. They just accept each nations definition without actually equalizing the data. Hence why things like the US Infinite mortality looks high (because we report all infant deaths like everyone else.) and why some scandnavian countries have strangely high rape numbers. (They could each act as a rape rather then just together.)
Apparently 46% of the people in the US who are considered poor own their own houses. Or did. That figure is probably lower.
Edit: Eh, actually that doesn't help much since it doesn't define actual poverty. Though it does show the usual Krugman "make shit up" philosphy.
I'll leave the link up anyway though. http://lanekenworthy.net/2008/02/20/absolute-poverty/
Also this
http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5313/1/MPRA_paper_5313.pdf
When it comes to absolute poverty we're higher then a lot of europeon countries, but doesn't really cover healthcare and stuff.
