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by **observer** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 11:32 am

kafenes wrote:
observer wrote:The latest figures that I can find for RoC, after the quickest of searches, is here: http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/ewco/200 ... 10059I.htm indicating that in 2003, 21.4% of RoC citizens lived beneath the poverty line.

At 18.56%, Turkey seems to be doing rather well.

........... don't you just love these statisticians?

21.4% must be referring to TC population.

Watch out, you'll be in trouble for daring to suggest that there are that many TCs!. :lol:

by **observer** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 11:36 am

Paphitis wrote:
observer wrote:The latest figures that I can find for RoC, after the quickest of searches, is here: http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/ewco/200 ... 10059I.htm indicating that in 2003, 21.4% of RoC citizens lived beneath the poverty line.

At 18.56%, Turkey seems to be doing rather well.

........... don't you just love these statisticians?

I am sure that if we got some statistics going back to the 1950s, then we would find a far larger percentage of persons living below the poverty line....

This link does not count as it is far too outdated...

Perhaps you haven't read it:
Author: Polina Stavrou
Institution: Cyprus Labour Institute (INEK/PEO)
Country: Cyprus
Language: EN
Publication date: 04-03-2008

by **Paphitis** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 11:36 am

observer wrote:... so if I follow Paphitis' reasoning, Qatar, with a GDP per capita of $ 87,600, is the world's major superpower - nice try!

No, but you would expect a "Regional Power" to be able to at least feed their people, have an adequate industrial output or have a strategic nuclear capability, such as India and China have.

Turkey cannot feed her people, and neither does it have an adequate strategic capability, and therefore is no Regional Power.

Lets just recap:

Turkey is ranked 87th in world in terms of GDP per capita, whilst Greece and Cyprus are ranked 39th and 47th...

Greece is much more worthy to be considered a regional power.

You Turks also seem to forget about Israel...

by **Paphitis** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 11:41 am

observer wrote:
Paphitis wrote:
observer wrote:The latest figures that I can find for RoC, after the quickest of searches, is here: http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/ewco/200 ... 10059I.htm indicating that in 2003, 21.4% of RoC citizens lived beneath the poverty line.

At 18.56%, Turkey seems to be doing rather well.

........... don't you just love these statisticians?

I am sure that if we got some statistics going back to the 1950s, then we would find a far larger percentage of persons living below the poverty line....

This link does not count as it is far too outdated...

Perhaps you haven't read it:
Author: Polina Stavrou
Institution: Cyprus Labour Institute (INEK/PEO)
Country: Cyprus
Language: EN
Publication date: 04-03-2008

This is from your link..

The study makes a longitudinal econometric analysis of poverty in Cyprus during the 1991–2003 period

Sorry, but your source is a study of poverty in Cyprus between 1991-2003.

Considering that Cyprus has been a booming economy for the last 2 decades, those statistics are now irrelevant... :lol:

by **Tim Drayton** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 11:46 am

Paphitis wrote:[...]
Turkey cannot feed her people.
[...]

Total nonsense. Very few, if any, people in Turkey go hungry. Wallow in your wishful thinking if it makes you happy.

by **Paphitis** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 12:09 pm

Tim Drayton wrote:
Paphitis wrote:[...]
Turkey cannot feed her people.
[...]

Total nonsense. Very few, if any, people in Turkey go hungry. Wallow in your wishful thinking if it makes you happy.

13,731,526 citizens below the poverty line.

That is according to this Turkish link.... :lol:

http://en.timeturk.com/18-percent-of-Tu ... aberi.html

That is a lot of hungry people for a "regional power" that does not have a nuclear capability or adequate industrial output.