Absolute Poverty
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Absolute poverty is deprivation measured against a fixed standard of the resources required for survival, unchanged by what others in the society have.
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A threshold based on the cost of minimum food and shelter is an absolute measure.
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The threshold is set by a decision about what counts as minimum, so it is fixed by choice.