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Family
of five now needs $52,4 million monthly
The Herald
(Zimbabwe)
June
14, 2006
http://www1.herald.co.zw/inside.aspx?sectid=4959&livedate=6/14/2006%2012:00:00%20AM&cat=8
What it means
is the breadwinner for a family of five has to earn at par or in
excess of $52,4 million per month, which is well above what the
majority of Zimbabwe’s workers are earning. On average, each person
in the family now requires $10,4 million per month from the April
figure of $7,5 million. The productive industrial and farm workers
are currently earning less than $10 million per month, qualifying
them to be classified as "very poor".
The CSO figures
are marginally higher than the Consumer
Council of Zimbabwe’s May figure of $49,1 million a month for
a family of six.
Unlike the Poverty
Datum Line which includes both rural and urban households, the CCZ
basket is confined to urban centres only. Over the past 12 months,
the TCPL for a family of five has increased by 1 367 percent from
$3,5 million in May last year. On the other hand, the Food Poverty
Line stood at $17,9 million.
The FPL is the
minimum consumption expenditure necessary to ensure that each household
member can (if all expenditures were devoted to food) consume a
minimum food basket representing 2 100 kilo calories.
"The TCPL is
derived by computing the non-food consumption expenditures of poor
households whose consumption expenditures are just equal to the
FPL.
"The amount
was added to the FPL, if an individual does not consume more than
the TCPL, he or she is not deemed poor," the CSO said.
The poverty
lines vary from province to province just as prices differ from
place to place. According to the CSO, May’s TCPL for all the country’s
10 provinces ranged between $45 million and $57,7 million.
Mashonaland
West, the nation’s breadbasket, is the cheapest province to live
in.
The TCPL there
currently stands at $45 million. The TCPL for Bulawayo was computed
at $57,7 million, making it the most expensive province.
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