Bishaw, Alemayehu (contributor); Iceland, John (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
incomes that were below the poverty
thresholds, down from 13.1 percent in
1989.
1
The incidence of poverty varied
considerably … on page 2 and the
poverty thresholds used are
in Table 1.
Declines in poverty between
1989 and 1999 were regis-
tered for ….7 percentage points, from 18.3 per-
cent in 1989 to 16.6 percent in 1999.
Despite declines, the child poverty rate
in 1999 still …