Economics 0455 · IGCSE · Poverty

Poverty — practice question

The top 60% of people in a high-income economy saw their income rise. The incomes of everyone else stayed unchanged. How were absolute poverty and relative poverty affected?

  • 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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