Editing Poverty threshold (section)

===Relative poverty compared with other standards===
A measure of ''relative poverty'' defines "poverty" as being below some relative poverty threshold. For example, the statement that "those individuals who are employed and whose household equivalised disposable income is below 60% of national median equivalised income are poor" uses a relative measure to define poverty.<ref name="In-Work Poverty New commonly agreed indicators at the EU level">{{cite journal |last1=Bardone |first1=Laura |last2=Guio |first2=Anne-Catherine |title=In-Work Poverty: New commonly agreed indicators at the EU level |journal=Statistics in Focus |date=2005 |url=https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-statistics-in-focus/-/ks-nk-05-005 }}</ref>

The term ''relative poverty'' can also be used in a different sense to mean "moderate poverty"&nbsp;– for example, a [[standard of living]] or level of income that is high enough to satisfy basic needs (like [[water]], [[food]], [[clothing]], housing, and basic [[health care]]), but still significantly lower than that of the majority of the population under consideration.
An example of this could be a person living in poor conditions or squalid housing in a high crime area of a developed country and struggling to pay their bills every month due to low wages, debt or unemployment. While this person still benefits from the infrastructure of the developed country, they still endure a less than ideal lifestyle compared to their more affluent countrymen or even the more affluent individuals in less developed countries who have lower living costs.<ref>{{cite web|title=Inequality in Focus, October 2013: Analyzing the World Bank's Goal of Achieving "Shared Prosperity"|url=http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/publication/inequality-in-focus-october-2013|website=World Bank|access-date=16 April 2015}}</ref>