Examples of poverty
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Many imaginative changes could be made at no cost, and that is the basis on which we have tried to approach some of poverty's difficult problems.
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His findings show powerfully that poverty can structure the individual life course and generational relationships across time.
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Poverty is worrying about money all the time.
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The factory, she argues, ' ' suggests poverty, entrapment, back-breaking work.
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How did its wealth or poverty change over the very long period covered by this book?
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The second issue concerns poverty and other social problems, as well as efforts to deal with those problems.
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The overseers (homen iin) measured the degree of poverty in almost the same way.
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Secondly, they actively carried out and published social surveys of urban poverty.
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According to this interpretation, the aged ordinarily resided with their adult children only out of necessity, especially in cases of poverty or infirmity.
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The foundlings may therefore have come from parishes containing wealthy individuals, but also a large degree of poverty and indigence.
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Poverty was the main reason why children were boarded out, frequently associated with loss of parents and difficulties in providing for a large household.
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We should all do our best to lessen poverty and suffering and make the world a more equal place.
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There are, to be sure, fewer inscriptions and no very lengthy ones, but that too reflects the relative poverty of public culture.
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They may simply assume that old age is a time of poverty, decay and discrimination.
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What are the causes of poverty in old age?
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Poverty, therefore, is a huge risk factor in depression and poor psychological wellbeing.
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They adopted a qualitative approach to evaluating poverty, holding in-depth interviews with a number of groups regarded as disempowered.
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Notwithstanding these limitations, this investigation contributes an international perspective to research on development in situations of pervasive poverty.
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Their seminal contributions have been of enormous consequence for understanding the relationships between development, environment, and poverty and have translated into significant policy advances.
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Such developments can only further consolidate these farmers in the rural poverty trap.
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However, for the purposes of this paper, we also need to know the effects of these factors on poverty in the locality.
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The measures proposed are oriented to mitigating the factors that induce greater environmental deterioration and poverty.
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The results suggest that though the short-term impact of reforms would increase poverty, in the longer term trade liberalization would be poverty reducing.
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In contrast, linkages among poverty, income shocks, and agricultural land clearing can be analyzed using data collected in household surveys.
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Another example is the nexus between poverty, population growth, and the environment.
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First, we explore whether income from natural resource extraction affects poverty and inequality.
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The poverty gap measure reveals a similar pattern of greater sensitivity of poverty at the regional and community levels than at the national level.
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However, those who campaign for debt relief, increased aid and direct budgetary support to solve the challenges of poverty and hunger, should take note.
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Assessing research impact on poverty: the importance of farmers' perspectives.
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However, unless such cutbacks are carefully targeted, they may disproportionately penalize expenditures on environmental protection or poverty safety nets.
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In low-income countries in particular, a vicious cycle sets in: infectious disease leads to poverty, which increases the risk for disease.
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Poverty should be reduced and adequate healthcare and nutrition made available to all children.
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On the one hand, there is a need for aid-oriented policies to ensure that these families are beyond food poverty.
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However, the discussion reviews the consequences of including a consideration of family poverty during the offspring's childhood in these models.
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Thus, aggressive behavior mediates some of the individual poverty effect yet classroom (and school) poverty still remains important.
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Both the profiles of neighborhood experience and a measure of census-tract-level neighborhood hazard (poverty and violence) showed relationships to antisocial behavior.
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The tract was coded as contiguous if any of the surrounding tracts exceeded a threshold of 40% poverty.
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We next hypothesize that individual or classroom level of poverty will not explain this classroom aggression contextual effect.
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The poverty of scripts among preschoolers may well have a negative effect on their memory.
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To be sure, integration into the global economy by itself is neither necessary nor sufficient for economic development and the reduction of poverty.
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We shall be remov'd from all our friends and acquaintance, and our poverty and meanness will by that means sit more easy upon us.
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The distribution of land and land quality is critical in determining poverty impacts.
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Lower income for producers results in continuing poverty and can lead to pressure to clear additional areas.
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Is there a connection between poverty and fertility?
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The age-old argument of the "poverty of stimulus" comes immediately to mind.
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The main gap in the approach still remains the link with the non-agricultural dimensions of regional poverty.
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In this regard, new approaches to technology generation allow research outcomes to be customized to the heterogeneity of poverty.
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However, such collaboration is not part of a comprehensive approach to poverty reduction.
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In consequence thereof being reduced to the most abject state of poverty (thro, want of employment) has urged me to make this application.
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In conclusion, our findings suggest that self-regulation is a prominent predictor of resilience among youths living in poverty.
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Thus, the families in the sample are characterized by poverty, relatively large family size, and frequent unstable marriages.
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One can use a standard definition based on income, but this may miss several salient factors, such as length of time in poverty and employment.
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Success in pursuing either specialized husbandry or diversification may depend on previous conditions of prosperity or poverty and background skills brought to those activities.
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In this setting, proposals for the abolition of poverty were varied and plentiful.
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They are socially advanced countries with very little poverty.
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The implausibility of children ' learning ' such abstract principles is the foundation of the poverty of the stimulus argument, upon which generative linguistic theory is based.
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The poverty, disease, and crime in the new urban slums were seen as resulting from the genetic inferiority of the inhabitants.
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Poverty has been the invisible counter-point to this focus on the world's elite.
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Thus, poverty traps are readily interpretable as low-output steady states.
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Having acknowledged that, our results are generalizable to millions of children throughout the world who live in poverty (36).
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The book, however, ranges beyond an economic history of the hamlet, to examine poverty, crime and punishment, as well as education, religion, leisure and politics.
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Given that poverty was a political problem, it had to be addressed at the level of the state.
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Progressives believed that dirt and disorder created chaos and made it difficult for citizens to lift themselves out of poverty.
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Chapters on poverty, citizenship and women give the book a valuable contemporary relevance.
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They are offered as an open-ended entitlement to those urban households whose income falls below the officially defined poverty thresholds, with variations among cities.
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The grassroots groups of the 1970s were more fully engaged in the struggle against poverty and the fight for citizenship rights.
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They highlight the complexity of the lives either blighted by acute poverty or lived from the perspective of the possibility of poverty.
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The living standards of most groups have been drastically reduced, and more and more are living in acute poverty.
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Comparing citizen households across regimes, the two liberal countries exhibit the highest poverty rates and the least decommodification.
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Her activism for peace, racial justice, and antipoverty causes led her naturally into the issues of our penal system.
They have invested heavily in cotton as the sole possibility for climbing out of poverty and keeping their countries stable.
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The first indicator of collective benefits relates to the issue of poverty.
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Any deterioration in economic conditions will clearly undermine the reliability of paid work as a route out of poverty.
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When poverty is considered by itself in the studies of variation in levels of poverty in first grade, 41 classrooms are included.
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Partnerships and participation in conducting poverty-related health research 363 personal goals for participation in the project, and related needs for support.
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He seems unaware of the literature on poverty dynamics.
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Few respondents acknowledged their own poverty, a familiar enough finding.
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Current income poverty is not a strong enough indicator of actual deprivation - because of the transitions discussed above.
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The sea is an immense expanse of poverty.
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In this context it is the notion of poverty which has most frequently been the object of dispute.
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Especially among very old women poverty rates are high.
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Emigration was traditionally seen as forced, a combination of poverty and overpopulation making the poor leave their home country.
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There was little enough concern with poverty nearer home.
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The means of escaping poverty are not worth pursuing by a woman who genuinely wishes to be happy.
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Landlessness was also seen as an element of poverty and encouraged large families so that children could earn and remit wages.
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Certainly there is no corroboration of the contemporary belief that mining engendered poverty.
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In the second part, they investigated how many people were in poverty in terms of this" consensual view".
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The poor are an integral part of the working class, poverty is the direct product of the general pattern of class inequality.
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The sickness or disablement of one parent, whether temporary or permanent, can have major implications for families near the poverty margin.
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Poverty should then perhaps best be seen more realistically in terms of relative rather than absolute deprivation.
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Second, the relationship between age and poverty may be the consequence of other causal factors.
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Despite the difficulties, people still regard access to education for their children as a" passport out of poverty".
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