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Defining Poverty and its Material Basis for Estimating Climate Impact
This chapter explores the concept of poverty measurement in international development policy and discusses the limitations of using income thresholds to define poverty. It emphasizes the challenges in translating absolute income thresholds to people's actual living standards and highlights the need for a clear definition of the material basis of poverty for estimating energy and material needs for climate impact.