The economic and social power of Church beneficence exposed the poverty of public provision for the poor. |
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There have been instances where girls have run away with men to escape their poverty or difficult home conditions. |
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He ascribed the poor results to poverty and the lack of resources at most schools. |
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Ending world poverty means rejecting the logic of capitalism that puts profit before human need. |
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As long as people believe poverty and authenticity go hand-in-hand, lo-fi will never go out of style. |
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On his travels, Sachs started noticing geographic, historic and social circumstances that lock countries into poverty traps. |
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We are truly grateful to them for joining our efforts to attack the root causes of poverty worldwide. |
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Also, more than one in four Hispanic families earns a living below the national poverty level. |
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One quarter of single parent families and pensioners are living on an income below the poverty line. |
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Looking at the collective poverty of our governments, one might think we've been living through a depression. |
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One million children are still living in poverty in Britain, despite the government's pledge to reduce child poverty. |
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There are 291 million people living below the poverty line in sub-Saharan Africa. |
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The IMF presenter demonstrated a strong linkage between the level of per capita GDP and the poverty rate. |
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The textile sector presents good opportunity for us to spur growth and combat poverty because of its vertical linkage to agriculture. |
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Various groups of rigorists began openly to accuse their opponents of laxity in the observance of poverty and even to disobey their superiors. |
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However, such was his poverty that the revolutionary seer was reduced to pawning the silver. |
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Sadly at the end of the year few issues pertaining to poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand had been addressed. |
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All the women tell the same story of poverty and the need to provide for their families. |
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Deepening poverty exacerbated by rising prices and pegged wages will lead to growing anti-government hostility. |
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After a prolonged agricultural depression lifted in the 1890s, the worst of rural poverty was finally dispelled. |
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This comic moment emphasizes Bergot's poverty and makes Lily's retrieval of the money more daunting. |
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That way, you just might be able to live above the poverty line in your retirement! |
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Wealth is a marker for social status, success, and respectability, just as poverty is stigmatising. |
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There is much poverty and anguish in the world, and it breeds resentment and envy. |
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They become trapped in a vicious circle in which poverty begets lawlessness and lawlessness begets more poverty. |
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Its most recent detailed analysis of the economy suggested that relative poverty worsened during the period of the Celtic tiger boom. |
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Throughout the album, Dead Prez move from bitter reportage, recounting tales of poverty and desperation, to impassioned calls to action. |
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Among family members, social support can help buffer the negative impacts of poverty and economic hardship. |
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Atman's ancestors left their homeland due to the cruel exploitation by the zamindars, besides excruciating poverty and disease. |
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And, of course, Scotland today is justly renowned as a land entirely without poverty and crime. |
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Petty theft and larceny are caused by poverty and frequent shortages of consumer goods, but violence is rare. |
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To be poor in spirit is to acknowledge one spiritual poverty and brokenness. |
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It is unrealistic to ask rich students to love the spirit of poverty and live as the poor. |
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So given that combination of factors, poverty and much greater cost for alterative chemicals, that alone defines a rather severe problem. |
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The third strand of poverty research relates individual and structural factors. |
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Thus, a family with income between 100 and 200 percent of the poverty line would be reimbursed 75 percent of its total covered expenses. |
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In all fairness she is saving the children from a life of poverty and misery. |
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Coming to the London docks he was shocked at the misery and poverty of casual labour and organized a docker's union. |
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The poverty line does not even account for regional variations in the cost of living! |
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What stood out when I was there wasn't their poverty but their perseverance and resourcefulness. |
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The solution to rising poverty rates isn't to level incomes down so that half the median is easier for low skilled workers to reach. |
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Emma Watson, who has been brought up by a well-to-do aunt, returns to her family, who live unfashionably in genteel poverty in a Surrey village. |
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The result will be worry and potential poverty for millions, and for some losing their homes when they cannot keep up payments after retiring. |
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This could be due to the fact that the countries still have large poverty pockets where populations are underfed. |
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So many in my district are worried about why the poverty numbers are rising. |
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It fused reggae, ska and rockabilly in a multicultural rant against poverty and discrimination. |
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India has an unassailable position at the head of the world's poverty league. |
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The step-family may solve the poverty risks that haunt the single-parent family. |
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To be a borderline poverty level working mother is becoming a reality for more and more single, hard working mothers. |
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As part of their two weeks work, volunteers engage in discussion workshops dealing with the causes of poverty in third world countries. |
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Rapid economic growth may lead to the simultaneous increase of both poverty and inequality. |
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It is about the fear of crime, oppression of women and how people feel safer to blinker themselves against poverty and homelessness. |
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It shows the splendour of Europe's royal families while documenting the poverty of the working classes. |
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Will Crooks, a cooper living in extreme poverty in East London, once spent tuppence on a secondhand Iliad, and was dazzled. |
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She knew poverty, but not the type of poverty that is experienced by some families today. |
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It redirects funds made through business into combating poverty and hardship for children. |
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My thoughts turned to the Priory, and the monks who lived in peace and poverty there. |
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After World War I increasing poverty of the masses led to political turbulence. |
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The rich white missionary agencies are making use of the country's poverty and social ills to further their ends. |
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Africa's poverty won't be lifted unless its kleptocratic governments and feudal economic systems change. |
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Attempting to cure poverty by increasing the minimum wage is thus somewhat recursive. |
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Lions and tigers may be the kings of beasts, but they face common poverty in the Yangpu District Zoo. |
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We must undergo a serious soul searching because the continent cannot continue to be a place of poverty and misery. |
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The statistics clearly show that both urban and agrestic rate of poverty has fallen significantly in the last decade. |
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However, he would not miss an opportunity to stare poverty and human misery in its face in any of the countries he visited. |
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Some 130 million people have been removed from abject poverty but their living condition remains miserable. |
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These college presidents also worry about the persistence of poverty in many American communities, often in those where campuses are located. |
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He would be aghast at the spread of materialism and greed, and angry at our indifference to poverty and deprivation. |
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This refers to efforts to strive to prevent disputes, while shielding the weak from oppression, famine, poverty and other tragedies. |
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I thought this rally was about making poverty history, not causing aggro with the Old Bill. |
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I have just returned from a visit a country ravaged by disease, poverty and hunger on a biblical scale. |
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Some things sadden me, particularly the poverty and the great contrast between the rich and the poor. |
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Now he was forced into whoring himself to the system for the money because he was about to fall below the poverty line. |
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It is true that people out of poverty long for something higher, transcendental and spiritual. |
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He's ticked off because he's being robbed and humiliated right now, kept down by poverty and the lack of a level playing field. |
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Unemployment and poverty have reached catastrophic levels, especially in the east of the country. |
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Jobs are no longer guaranteed, even for the educated middle classes, and there is poverty right next to the opulent palaces of the rulers. |
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I've been vacationing down in Mexico before, but Venezuela was a whole new level of poverty I had never seen before. |
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Keeping alive 55 year olds ravaged by a lifetime of poverty is much less cost effective than removing children from poverty. |
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Neston Church was bound in a huge banner as part of a global campaign to wrap up world poverty last week. |
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I would also suggest a connection-it is no accident that child poverty is not topmost on the Washington agenda. |
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To increase taxes now would be to raise the white flag and surrender to the poverty lobby. |
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Standardisation, quality assurance, metrology and testing of products are key to poverty reduction says the Zambia Bureau of Standards. |
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Applying this new morality, science could bring into being a global civilization without poverty or war. |
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I have never entertained a sentimental attachment to the poverty or hardships my ancestors endured. |
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The school authorities identified three meritorious students from below poverty line families and gave them a helping hand. |
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He said the step to beating poverty was to ensure trade justice, eradicate debt to poor countries and deliver more aid. |
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The mendicants called such a life of poverty and itinerant preaching the vita apostolica. |
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Pankaj is like those dilettantes one reads about in Somerset Maugham, who fear boredom more than old age, death, poverty or mendicancy. |
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For the Buddha's monks this meant a life of mendicancy, of poverty but not of self-mortification, of celibacy and of gentle honesty. |
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The poverty of their land ensured that the Kamba remained less affected by European colonisation than the related Kikuyu. |
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What poverty meant to the peasants was their virtually complete lack of money. |
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The teachers' union is giving the Government a rark up over poverty levels. |
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The relative poverty of the region is the reason why the financial losses seem disproportionately small. |
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As unemployment soared nearly half the population were driven below the official poverty line. |
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Stanley was a self-made man who raised himself from poverty to success through his technical skills. |
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They should retain the remit to mobilise and lead the active response to acute poverty and exclusion. |
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Raised in genteel poverty in rural Wales and then in Hertford, England, Wallace was largely self-educated. |
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That history was one of poverty and violence, of battered women and abandoned children. |
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All means-tested benefits combined would reduce the poverty rate by another 2.9 percentage points. |
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Academics and poverty mavens know this to be the case, though they try to soften the harshness of its implications. |
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Hundreds of thousands, millions of Hungarian people live day to day and die from starvation, thirst and poverty in our country. |
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When the leaders of the most powerful countries meet, they often talk of the poverty of the Third World. |
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They are miserable, so sick from poverty that they have entered old age or second childhood. |
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The priest's accent is thick, and he falters in his memorized patter about the church's attempts to overcome poverty and prejudice. |
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There are deep wells of poverty in both which are a living reproach to their political representatives. |
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The idea was to lift the neediest children out of the cycle of poverty by helping them and their parents, all too often their lone mothers. |
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For years Irish politics dealt with weighty issues such as unemployment, closing the poverty gap and education for all. |
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Questions must be asked whether the poverty that now weighs us down can always be blamed on other people. |
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I asked if the influx of seachangers may mask the poverty of long term residents. |
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The flagrant flaunting of wealth amidst the dire poverty of the mass of the population is helping fuel social and political opposition. |
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Still, poverty is a fact of life and one that cannot be easily banished from the everyday world. |
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The rock of Mother Jones' faith was her conviction that working Americans acting together must free themselves from poverty and powerlessness. |
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The mere accumulation of national wealth is not sufficient to deal with poverty as a health risk. |
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You certainly thank your lucky stars for what you've got when you see the kind of poverty a lot of people live in. |
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And they still bear the brunt of urban poverty as single parents in the commercial wastelands that too often are their neighborhoods. |
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In one man is embodied the rise of black America from poverty and social exclusion to acceptance and eventual success on its own terms. |
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And yet, despite the poverty staring them in the face, generosity and hospitality from the most unexpected quarters have overwhelmed them. |
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She lived through the terrible poverty of the Weimar years, when the price of a loaf of bread soared to more than 50 million marks. |
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They were unaware that a degraded environment leads to a scramble for scarce resources and may culminate in poverty and even war. |
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Time magazine spoke of the need to tackle global poverty as a root of terrorism. |
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In particular, the link between poverty and health was noted for confusing interpretations of the bald figures. |
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In the midst of luxury, abundance, and indeed waste, what can be our proper response when confronted with the poverty Kapuscinski describes? |
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But many economists believe that relative poverty rather than absolute standards is what matters. |
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For them increasing poverty and social scission seems at best a distant rumour. |
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He was pained by the abject poverty and the trouble women had to undergo to fetch water for the families. |
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Grant did not affect the mock shock of someone who has experienced abject poverty first-hand for the first time on any of her trips. |
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People are having fun in this town, it's not all poverty and abject misery. |
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The setting is one of abject poverty and misery, yet the upbeat caption tells us that even victims of disaster need a good shoeshine. |
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This was intimately tied to their notion that the way out of poverty was via waged work. |
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Rural poverty and backward agriculture will have to be tackled with, among other things, irrigation, power, communications and education. |
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If poverty leads to lead exposure, and lead abets crime and poor health, then lead can be said to nudge indigent people toward crimes. |
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Seventy percent of Malagasies live below the poverty line, surviving on less than 1 dollars a day. |
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Pundits lost no time in savaging the weakness of the script, the poverty of the acting and shambolic directing. |
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The tattered clothes of the majority of shoeless, rural and urban poor are outward signs of the poverty they endure. |
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The adventure opened their eyes to the beauty and majesty of Latin America but also to the social injustice and poverty that surrounded them. |
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Early poverty left her with an avaricious streak and occasionally greed has cost her. |
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The biotech companies and their tame scientists are using other people's poverty to engineer their own enrichment. |
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Speakers then took turns to denounce the government, complaining of unemployment, poverty and corruption. |
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Our country has substantial number of disabled people who have excelled in various walks of life, overcoming poverty and social taboos. |
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It has also helped address poverty through improvements to the social safety net and other social sector programs. |
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He and his family lived in abject poverty until a lucky break enabled him to make a comeback. |
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In 2001, many Costa Rican coffee farmers were forced off their land and into poverty when coffee prices plummeted to record lows. |
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From any standard this level is said to be touching the poverty line, but statistics show that despite the government's claims poverty is on the rise. |
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They lifted millions of people from poverty with micro loans. |
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Through his art, Bailey drew attention to poverty and despair in faraway places. |
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He vows that it will create 250,000 jobs, lift Nicaragua out of poverty and make it the maritime capital of the world. |
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True, the colonies lacked the extremes of wealth and poverty to be seen in the mother country. |
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She was taken out of poverty in a back-to-back house in Bradford, where her divorced mum had to bring up six children, into middle-class affluence. |
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His argument on poverty relies on questionable assumptions, and he conflates arguments against corporate globalization with antiglobalization in general. |
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The reality of his family's poverty finally leaves no option but for Frankie to work, but this time he finds a far better job delivering telegrams for the Post Office. |
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How do we attack the complex problem of deprivation when poverty is scattered throughout a region rather than concentrated in one, relatively treatable area? |
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Republican candidates in states like Georgia and Virginia lamented high poverty rates. |
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During this election season, it burns me up that Republicans and Democrats can't talk about poverty here in the U.S. and shrinking government services to the poor. |
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And sociologist Pierre Bourdieu was a scientist who really looked into poverty and inequalities in France. |
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Mother Mary of the Passion, who was beatified on October 20, followed St. Francis of Assissi's evangelical spirit of simplicity, poverty and chastity. |
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This was set in a cheap boarding house inhabited by a collection of semi-human misfits, degenerates, and murderers, who were what they were because poverty had made them so. |
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People subjected to poverty tend to suffer higher instance of mortality and morbidity as compared to those living affluently, particularly in developed countries. |
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The climb from poverty by a young woman unsure of herself is remarkable. |
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Ryan wants to address multigenerational poverty with caseworker assistance. |
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But poverty is high, drug use is common and resentments run deep. |
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It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time. |
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One-sided sketches of globalization that celebrate its prosperity unforgivably trivialize the poverty and hardship of the vast majority of the world's people. |
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This Noah Smith post on poverty in Japan seems to encapsulate it pretty well. |
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Sanctions hit the economy and schools were left short of basic supplies such as chalk and blackboards, and poverty forced many children out of education. |
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Haskins is affiliated with the liberal Brookings Institution, but he worked on poverty issues in the Bush White House. |
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Because of the poverty of the tribals and the complexity involved in the ITDP procedures, they are forced to sell their produce to local sahukars, at abysmal rates. |
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But the Buddha condemned both extreme luxury and extreme poverty as obstacles to enlightenment. |
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Nor do these studies address the structural and systematic issues that contribute to obesity, such as poverty and stress. |
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Almost as angry as the descriptions of poverty was Orwell's denunciation of the chasm between prim middle-class socialists and the rickets and rankness of working-class life. |
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Some might say there is also an obscenity to it, given the amount of poverty in the world. |
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It is the same liberal whites and Latinos and blacks, the same problems of poverty and housing and joblessness. |
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In a country nearly crushed by poverty and joblessness, there is little money left over for making the prisons humane and livable. |
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The Pharisees who preach that poverty is due to laziness and thriftlessness, and the fanatics who attribute it to drink, are for the moment silent. |
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It should go without saying that his ideas about how to fight poverty are as a batty as they come, completely driven by ideology. |
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She struggles with the poverty and meanness of her surroundings to keep herself and her family 'respectable' and is determined that her boys will not become miners. |
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Artemis Stefanoudaki, a 38-year-old photographer, lives on the razor-thin margin between poverty and destitution. |
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This, in turn, ensured concentrated poverty and all its attendant problems, as well as bad schools and poor public services. |
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He claimed that any serious conversation about poverty must include the issue of automobile access. |
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Parks was ignored and left to fend for herself in poverty for many years. |
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Clearly poverty is not the only reason state reps are attempting to meddle with marriage laws. |
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On poverty and surveillance, Democrats and Republicans finally found some common ground. |
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As they were only talking to themselves, obscurantism increased on a par with poverty and its ills. |
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In nouveau hipster and increasingly expensive Brooklyn, nearly a quarter of people live below the poverty line. |
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And of course we have health care coming down the pike, and all its subsidies to families up to 188 percent of the poverty line. |
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Instead he has emphasized core elements of the social gospel like combatting poverty and ministering to the sick and downtrodden. |
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Irrespective of the success of the government's latest initiative, eradicating poverty among such a large proportion of the population would prove a mammoth undertaking. |
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The gap between rich and poor has widened and Brenda has seen people suddenly move from comfortable middle class lives to the poverty trap through redundancy or illness. |
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It is likely that we will hear more verbal assaults around both the accuracy of poverty statistics, and the legitimacy of those who produce such research. |
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As for supposedly living high on the hog on one's credit cards, one third of all bankruptcy filings are made by families already living under the federal poverty level. |
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For without it, the developing world and the millions in it who live in extreme poverty will lose the best chance they have of improving their lot in life. |
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According to the non-partisan Public Policy Institute, California has the highest poverty rate in the nation. |
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This means taking measures that do not bank on doctoring figures and introducing cosmetic measures, as was done in the case of poverty reduction figures. |
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Boxing is a rough trade and South Africa's crime-ridden townships and inner cities are rough places, with widespread poverty and glaring disparities of income. |
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The increase in use tracks pretty well with the rise in unemployment and poverty during the downturn. |
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His mismanagement of the economy and his corruption exacerbated the poverty of the population, which was thus unable to benefit from the country's wealth in mineral resources. |
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Otherwise stop the mother teresa vow of poverty and pay the players what they are worth. |
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The language of poverty and misery is unclear and uncomfortable. |
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A whole rethink and development of policies which will put the nation on the road to economic recovery is necessary, so that poverty can be rooted out. |
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The underlying cause of trouble in Oldham, Burnley and Bradford is the collapse of industries such as textiles, bringing with it poverty and unemployment, he believes. |
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The argumentative tradition, if used with deliberation and commitment, can also be extremely important in resisting social inequalities and removing poverty and deprivation. |
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His social snapshots reveal the unhappy repercussions of tyranny and poverty in a picturesque Africa. |
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The rapid movement toward globalization and marketization has and will continue to aggravate problems of poverty and inequality in the short to medium term. |
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When poverty started being seen not as inevitable, but as something alterable, being poor moved from the realm of bad luck to the realm of injustice. |
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It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied. |
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Trade liberalization, the complement to deregulated capital markets, also plays a significant role in raising inequality and limiting efforts at poverty reduction. |
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Young mothers struggle alone to bring up a growing proportion of children in relative poverty and more and more old people live out their days in uncared-for solitude. |
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They allowed us to capture the complicated relationship between poverty and family bonds, between community pride and desperation. |
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These Republicans still frighten voters with visions of an old age in poverty and frailty. |
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Why, for example, are poverty and corruption, poor health and illiteracy, so stubbornly endemic? |
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India's poverty absorbs everything and uniquely reinvents it. |
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The apparently unabating national and household poverty is widely debated. |
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The rich will not be able to continue to reap the profits of their investment in globalization if they do not seriously address the issues of poverty on a world scale. |
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But without a relative increase in the top band of income tax, a cut in fuel duty will only enhance the poverty gap, a gap that Labour is yet to decrease. |
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So even right here in the city you can find the most abominable poverty living almost cheek by jowl with these extraordinary lavish wasteful expenditures. |
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If the Administration is really concerned about poverty and other social problems it claims are caused by divorce and singleness, why not tackle those ills directly? |
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His optimism led him to compare ending poverty to eradicating scarlet fever and diphtheria. |
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A small exploitative class of intermediaries benefited enormously from the neocolonial relationship, but the masses were sunk in abject poverty and misery. |
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In fact, 40 percent of adults will dip below the poverty line at some point in their lives. |
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For more than 60 years it has helped millions of Americans avoid poverty in old age, upon becoming disabled, or after the death of a family wage earner. |
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The most common form of child poverty today is poverty in working families. |
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The governor selected a cadre of blue ribbon social scientists to serve on her poverty task force. |
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Now one had come to see these craftless rivers, empty stations and poverty instead of wealth. |
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The rampant poverty in the ethnic slums was just an emblem of the group's disenfranchisement by the society as a whole. |
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Since its conception, the European Union has been a haven for those seeking refuge from war, persecution and poverty in other parts of the world. |
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This is a higher level of relative poverty than all but four other EU members. |
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Their poverty usually led them to vote for the candidate who offered them the most. |
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The Church of England set up the Church Urban Fund in the 1980s to tackle poverty and deprivation. |
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They see poverty as trapping individuals and communities with some people in urgent need. |
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In child poverty terms, we live in one of the most unequal countries in the western world. |
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Many prominent people in the Church of England have spoken out against poverty and welfare cuts in the United Kingdom. |
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Although the Industrial Revolution brought wealth to the city, it also brought poverty and squalor to a large part of the population. |
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This line represents an average of the national poverty lines of the world's poorest countries, expressed in international dollars. |
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Rising out of poverty will require not a lick and a promise but deep reform. |
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This is largely due to economic clustering and poverty conditions that tend to associate based on geographic location. |
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Health and education levels remain relatively low, although they have improved recently as poverty levels have decreased. |
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In poverty stricken societies, authorities are often lax on compulsory school attendance because child labour is exploited. |
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The Church's principles of social justice influenced initiatives to tackle the challenges of poverty and social inclusion. |
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John XXII's actions thus demolished the fictitious structure that gave the appearance of absolute poverty to the life of the Franciscan friars. |
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Despite his great education and poetic talents, Donne lived in poverty for several years, relying heavily on wealthy friends. |
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Johnson felt guilty about the poverty in which he believed he had forced Tetty to live, and blamed himself for neglecting her. |
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Mary Shelley enjoyed the stimulating society of William Godwin's circle, but poverty prevented her from socialising as she wished. |
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He was a fierce critic of the poverty and social stratification of Victorian society. |
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The protagonist is thrown by fate into poverty and after many difficulties achieves a golden happiness. |
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Until 1919 he was compelled by poverty to shift from address to address and barely survived a severe attack of influenza. |
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The relationships among economic growth, employment, and poverty reduction are complex. |
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As a result, population numbers far outstripped the amount of available food and land, creating dire poverty and widespread hunger. |
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Modern welfare programs are chiefly distinguished from earlier forms of poverty relief by their universal, comprehensive character. |
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There is marked poverty among native people of the islands, as well as pressure to maintain a standard of living inconsistent with their means. |
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The government has established a Needs Assessment Unit to relieve poverty in the islands. |
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It is one looking to the future from combating violent extremism to addressing poverty and conflict around the world. |
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Rising food prices, in turn, pushed an additional six percent of the country into poverty in 2008 alone. |
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Gender inequality and discrimination is argued to cause and perpetuate poverty and vulnerability in society as a whole. |
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Bad housing conditions also constituted a major cause of poverty in the postwar era. |
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The continued existence of poverty in the 1960s was also characterised by differences in health between different social classes. |
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In 1975, the United Kingdom had fewer people living in poverty than Germany, Italy, Belgium, and Luxembourg. |
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Alternatively it is suggested poverty rose from about 2008 to 2012 but remained stable since then. |
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Employment is important but if wages do not rise substantially in relation to living costs it will not provide a route out of poverty alone. |
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The persistence of high poverty rates in the UK is associated with the relatively low generosity of the welfare state. |
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This negative trend created a lack of support for Welsh poverty reduction efforts, and can explain much of the stagnation present in the rate. |
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This is because general concepts of poverty change with time, and Relative Poverty reflects this better. |
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Fuel poverty affects over a million British working households and increases in energy prices affect poor people severely. |
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Persistent poverty is the effects of experiencing low income for long periods of time. |
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A decrease in poverty would mean a more active economy because more people would have the ability to purchase more consumer goods than before. |
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The report highlights financial insecurity, social exclusion and hopelessness and how poverty prevents the rehabilitation process. |
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The poverty threshold, poverty limit or poverty line is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country. |
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Notice that if everyone's real income in an economy increases, and the income distribution does not change, absolute poverty will decline. |
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The term absolute poverty is also sometimes used as a synonym for extreme poverty. |
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Absolute poverty is the absence of enough resources to secure basic life necessities. |
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The basic needs approach is one of the major approaches to the measurement of absolute poverty in developing countries. |
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The poverty line is then defined as the amount of income required to satisfy those needs. |
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However, some have argued that as relative poverty is merely a measure of inequality, using the term 'poverty' for it is misleading. |
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In 1965, Rose Friedman argued for the use of relative poverty claiming that the definition of poverty changes with general living standards. |
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For example, rich nations generally employ more generous standards of poverty than poor nations. |
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India's official poverty level, on the other hand, is split according to rural vs. |
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Using a single monetary poverty threshold is problematic when applied worldwide, due to the difficulty of comparing prices between countries. |
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So, despite everything these programs do to relieve poverty, they aren't counted as income when Washington measures the poverty rate. |
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India has lifted the most people in the region above the poverty line between 2008 and 2011, around 140 million. |
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Tearfund primarily focuses on supporting those in poverty and providing disaster relief, especially for disadvantaged communities. |
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Children born to poverty stricken families may have a harder time moving upward socially than their peers born to privilege. |
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There is opportunity for those in affluent areas that is not always there for those in poverty stricken areas. |
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In contrast with Romanticism, which was essentially optimistic about mankind, Realism offered a stark vision of poverty and despair. |
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Emin's mother until age seven owned a hotel in Margate, but bankruptcy and poverty ensued only when she broke up with Emin's father. |
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Statistics on poverty in the kingdom are not available through the UN resources because the Saudi government does not issue any. |
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Refugees are mired in poverty as they are generally barred from working in their host countries. |
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Although conditions are drastically better in cities, all of Ethiopia suffers from poverty and poor sanitation. |
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The term usually suggests poverty and low level of industrial development and thus it is the opposite of the term developed nations. |
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Although poverty is widespread throughout the city, a very affluent and prominent society has developed in Tijuana. |
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Levels of poverty in the province compared with other parts are Indonesia are relatively high. |
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Most conservatives also believe that government action cannot solve the problems of poverty and economic inequality. |
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Both stories related to Columba using his saintly blessing to raise people out of poverty and make them wealthier. |
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The club was founded in 1887 with the purpose of alleviating poverty in the immigrant Irish population in the East End of Glasgow. |
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Belizean Prime Minister Dean Barrow has stated his intention to use tourism to combat poverty throughout the country. |
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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has stated his intention to use tourism to combat poverty throughout the country. |
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Obtaining freedom was not a guarantee of escape from poverty or from many aspects of slave life. |
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During the same period, workhouses employed people whose poverty left them no other alternative than to work under forced labour conditions. |
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From the 17th century to the 19th century, workhouses took in people whose poverty left them no other alternative. |
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From 1992 to 2001, the country suffered a serious economic crisis, leaving most of the population below the poverty line. |
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While this was significantly lower than 94 percent in 2002, Moldova's poverty rate is still more than double the ECA average of 25 percent. |
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Merchants benefited greatly from the enforced monopolies, bans on foreign competition, and poverty of the workers. |
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