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| | Chapter 3: Economic Growth, Poverty, Equity and Food Security |
 | | It is at the household level, that the subjective perception of what it is to be poor better reflects the reality of poverty - as including aspects of material deprivation, isolation, alienation, dependence, lack of decision-making power and freedom of choice, lack of assets, vulnerability and insecurity. |
 | | In contrast, the worst statistics for poverty and equity were those of Brazil and Mexico where in the late 1980s, one third to one half of the population were subsisting under the poverty line - a mean which moreover disguised the pronounced regional inequity. |
 | | Thus, the effect of the massive food subsidies is not taken into account in this measure of poverty - consequently poverty, in this case, may not be strongly correlated with nutrition. |
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