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Richest nations rank high in child poverty league

Three of the richest countries in the world, America, Britain and Italy, have some of the highest levels of child poverty, according to an international study published today.

Russia is top of the world league with 26.6 per cent of children living below the poverty line. The US ranks second with a rate of 26.3 per cent; Britain is third at 21.3 per cent, while Italy comes in only slightly behind this at 21.2 per cent.

The survey of child poverty across the industrialised world, which is the first to use fully comparable figures, reveals hardly any deprivation among children in the Nordic countries. But the authors highlight shockingly high levels of child poverty in at least a dozen American states, including New York, California, Massachusetts and Arizona, where the poverty levels rival Russia.

The poverty rate among America’s single mothers is also the highest in the world, with 59 per cent raising children on incomes which are less than half the typical national income. By comparison 31 per cent of lone mothers in Russia live below the poverty line, 40 per cent in Britain and just 20 per cent in Italy, the study headed by Belgium and American researchers shows.

For more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/richest-nations-rank-high-in-child-poverty-league-693606.html

Indian poverty…

It has a population of 1.2 billion and a per capita income of around $1,000.
With nearly 270 million people living in poverty, India is a vastly different kind of economy.

Source; http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/29/us-india-economy-gdp-idUSBRE97S0FT20130829

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US poverty…
A report this summer from the National Poverty Center (NPC) reveals that the number of people in the US living on less than $2 a day per person, termed “extreme poverty,” increased by 160 percent from 1996 to mid-2011, rising from 636,000 households to some 1.65 million households. The findings throw light on the terrible plight of children in America. Concentrating on non-elderly households with children, the report found that 4.3 percent of these households were in extreme poverty, with 3.55 million children living in them.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/08/19/extr-a19.html

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Russian poverty…

In the USA, a person earning $930 or less per month is deemed to fall below the “poverty” level and is considered poor.
In Russia, the figure is $200 per month.
So the poverty income ratio between the USA and Russia is roughly 5:1.
An average American earns about $3,600 per month (about $22.50/hour). The average Russian earns about $770 per month (about $4.80/hour).
So the ordinary income ratio between the USA and Russia is roughly the same as the poverty ratio, 5:1. The average American poor person has about five times more income than the average Russian poor person, and the average American also has about five times more income.
Of course, nobody in their right mind would suggest that the cost of living in Russia is five times lower than in the United States. In fact, the giant Russian city of Moscow, for example, is routinely ranked as one of the most expensive places to live on the entire planet. Sony TVs, Levi’s jeans, Big Macs, VWs, they all cost pretty much the same no matter where you go.
So, to the extent that the cost of living in the USA isn’tfive times higher than Russia, the Russian definition of “poverty” is much too miserly compared to that of the USA. Of course, by defining poverty in a miserly way, the Russian government gets to claim that fewer Russians are living in poverty than there actually are, making itself look better.
And in fact, most reasonable people accept that the Kremlin sets the “poverty” level artificially — indeed, ludicrously — low in order to make itself look good, by magically erasing the number of poor people, with the stroke of a pen.
But even by miserly Russian standards, Moscow Timesreporter Howard Amos reports that the condition of poverty in Russia is worsening. Statistics show that there are now 400,000 more Russians living in poverty, as the Kremlin defines it, than there were in 2007. There has been no decline in “poverty” as the Kremlin defines it in more than five years. As has been pointed out, three times more Russians live on less than $7 per day than have ever traveled abroad.
Russia is a poor country, and getting poorer. No amount of Kremlin sleight of hand can change that. And the day of reckoning is coming fast and soon.

http://dyingrussia.wordpress.com/2012/12/13/russian-poverty/