Economics 2281 · O Level · Poverty

Poverty — practice question

The top $60\%$ of the population in a high-income economy experienced a rise in income. The income of the remaining people stayed unchanged. What effect did this have on 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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