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While the European Union (BE) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) correspond to the term “vari”, the Norwegian state stands out using a milder term, low-income”, to show people at the end of “income sharing”, Norwegian newspaper Klassecampen reported, Periscope.

According to Rolf Aaberg, an international expert on economic inequality and Norwegian Statistics researcher said this could create unnecessary confusion, as it does not match the rest of Europe. Aaberge noted that Eurostat approach is based on a decision by the EU Council of Ministers in 1975 that poverty levels should be linked to the overall standard of living in member states, as well as by accounting for social participation.

This is in line with what English economist Adam Smith suggested 240 years ago for public appearance without shame. In the past 15 years, the EU decided that the poverty line should be equal to 60 percent of average income, but Norway's statistics call it low-income “”, Rolf Aaberg explained.

However, according to Wenche Berg Husebø, who currently heads the Social Exploration Action Group and where he worked earlier at home “Robid Hood”, a shelter in Bergen, poverty remains a current issue in Norway, regardless of its state enjoying high economic prosperity.

Despite the country's wealth stemming from oil revenues, poverty still exists in the Nordic country of 5.1 million. According to the US-based nonprofit organisation “The Borgen Project”, which is dealing with poverty and hunger worldwide, 8.3 per cent of the population in Oslo's Norwegian capital suffer from poverty./Periscopi/