Rethinking poverty measures through diets

A new study argues that the World Bank’s $2.15 poverty line drastically underestimates global poverty because it measures survival calories rather than access to a nutritious diet. By introducing a Healthy Diet Poverty Line, researchers show that up to 2.9 billion people cannot afford balanced meals, reshaping how poverty and human well-being should be defined. 

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