Economics 0455 · IGCSE · Poverty

Poverty — practice question

In a high-income economy, the top 60% of the population experienced a rise in income. The income of everyone else remained unchanged. What happened to absolute and relative poverty?

  • Aabsolute poverty increased; relative poverty increased
  • Babsolute poverty increased; relative poverty remained constant
  • Cabsolute poverty remained constant; relative poverty increased
  • Dabsolute poverty remained constant; relative poverty remained constant

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