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1. Poverty: Poverty is the inability to provide for one's well-being — that is, being too poor to obtain adequate food, shelter, clothing, or healthcare. Poverty can be caused by external conditions that the individual is powerless to alter or improve ... [100%] 2024-01-11 [Culture] [economics]...
2. Poverty: Poverty is the state of being poorly endowed in material possessions. "Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished." "Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he ... [100%] 2023-02-19 [Economics] [Social Problems]...
3. Poverty: Poverty is deprivation based on lack of material resources. The concept is value-based and political. [100%] 2023-10-28
4. Poverty: Poverty is a condition in which a person or community is deprived of, or lacks, the essentials for a minimum standard of well-being and life. Since poverty is understood in many senses, these essentials may be material resources such ... [100%] 2023-02-04
5. Poverty: Poverty is a condition in which a person or community is deprived of, or lacks, the essentials for a minimum standard of well-being and life. Since poverty is understood in many senses, these essentials may be material resources such ... [100%] 2023-12-28 [Politics and social sciences] [Economics]...
6. Poverty: POVERTY pov'-er-ti: 1. Old Testament References: This word, found but once in the Old Testament (Genesis 45:11) outside of the Book of Proverbs in which it occurs 11 times (6:11; 10:15; 11:24 the King ... [100%] 1915-01-01
7. Poverty: Poverty is a condition in which a person or community is deprived of, or lacks, the essentials for a minimum standard of well-being and life. Since poverty is understood in many senses, these essentials may be material resources such ... [100%] 2023-02-03
8. Poverty: Condition or proportion of poor in a population. Although the riches of the Jews have passed into a proverb, all social observers are agreed that the Jews have a larger proportion of poor than any of the European nations among ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [100%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
9. Poverty: Poverty is a state or condition in which one lacks the financial resources and essentials for a certain standard of living. Poverty can have diverse environmental, legal, social, economic, and political causes and effects. (Lack of financial assets or possessions) [100%] 2024-03-19 [Poverty] [Aid]...
10. Poverty threshold: The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country. The poverty line is usually calculated by estimating the total cost of one year's worth of necessities for ... (Finance) [70%] 2023-12-23 [Welfare economics]
11. Poverty Point: Poverty Point is an archaeological and historic site in Louisiana, USA, dated to c. 1700-1100 BCE, enclosing one of the most significant Native American mound sites from Pre-Colonial America. It was once the location of a grand complex ... [70%] 2021-05-05
12. Poverty trap: Poverty trap : The situation in which an increase in earnings would be significantly reduced by a loss of those state benefits that are subject to a means test. [70%] 2023-06-19
13. Poverty level: The poverty level is an approximation of the income needed by a family to barely survive. It is roughly three times the amount that a typical family of its size would spend on food. [70%] 2023-02-16 [Political Terms]
14. Poverty elimination: Poverty elimination : A program of international organizations and industrialized states, to eliminate poverty as a significant element of Highly Indebted Poor Countries, weak states, and failed states. [70%] 2023-07-30
15. Poverty industry: The terms poverty industry or poverty business refer to a wide range of money-making activities that attract a large portion of their business from the poor. Businesses in the poverty industry often include payday loan centers, pawnshops, rent-to ... (Businesses that make most of their money from the poor) [70%] 2023-12-09 [Industries (economics)] [Poverty]...
16. Poverty porn: Poverty porn, also known as pornography of poverty, development porn, famine porn, or stereotype porn, has been defined as "any type of media, be it written, photographed or filmed, which exploits the poor's condition in order to generate the ... (Media that exploits the poor's condition to generate the necessary sympathy for selling newspapers) [70%] 2023-12-27 [Neologisms] [Poverty]...
17. Poverty penalty: The poverty penalty describes the phenomenon that poor people tend to pay more to eat, buy, and borrow than the rich. The term became widely known through a 2005 book by C. (Social) [70%] 2023-11-24 [Sociological terminology]
18. Poverty Bay: Poverty Bay (Māori: Tūranganui-a-Kiwa), officially named Tūranganui-a-Kiwa / Poverty Bay, is the largest of several small bays on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island to the north of Hawke Bay. It stretches for 10 ... (Bay on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island) [70%] 2023-08-22 [Bays of the Gisborne District] [Whaling stations in New Zealand]...
19. Poverty Point: Poverty Point (French: Pointe de Pauvreté) is a prehistoric mound builder site located in the extreme northeastern corner of the present-day state of Louisiana, 15.5 miles (24.9 km) from the Mississippi River. It is a complex array of ... [70%] 2023-02-04
20. Poverty Point: Poverty Point State Historic Site/Poverty Point National Monument (French: Pointe de Pauvreté; 16 WC 5) is a prehistoric earthwork constructed by the Poverty Point culture, located in present-day northeastern Louisiana. Evidence of the Poverty Point culture extends throughout much ... (History) [70%] 2023-11-20 [1st millennium BC] [2nd millennium BC]...
21. Enjoy Poverty: Cet article est une ébauche concernant un film néerlandais. Vous pouvez partager vos connaissances en l’améliorant (comment ?) selon les conventions filmographiques. [70%] 2024-04-15
22. End Water Poverty: End Water Poverty is an international campaign calling for sanitation and potable water for everyone. United Nations figures show that worldwide, 2.6 billion people live without anywhere to excrete in a sanitary manner and over 1.2 billion people ... (Earth) [57%] 2023-07-07 [Water and the environment]
23. Christians Against Poverty: Christians Against Poverty (CAP) is a Christian charitable company in the United Kingdom founded in Bradford, West Yorkshire by John Kirkby in 1996. It is a national organisation specialising in debt counselling for people in financial difficulty, including those in ... (Organization) [57%] 2023-11-20 [Debt] [Organizations (Finance)]...
24. Poverty Point culture: The Poverty Point culture is the archaeological culture of a prehistoric indigenous peoples who inhabited a portion of North America's lower Mississippi Valley and surrounding Gulf coast from about 1730 – 1350 BC. Archeologists have identified more than 100 sites ... (Archaeological culture that inhabited the lower Mississippi Valley) [57%] 2023-11-25 [Poverty Point culture] [Mound Builders]...
25. World Poverty Clock: The World Poverty Clock is a tool to monitor progress against poverty globally, and regionally. It provides real-time poverty data across countries. (Tool to monitor progress against poverty globally) [57%] 2023-10-08 [Measurements and definitions of poverty]
26. Poverty in Japan: In Japan, relative poverty is defined as a state at which the income of a household is at or below half of the median household income. According to OECD figures, the mean household net-adjusted disposable income for Japan is ... (Overview of poverty in Japan) [57%] 2023-12-20 [Poverty in Japan]
27. Poverty in Canada: Poverty in Canada refers to the state or condition in which a person or household lacks essential resources—financial or otherwise—to maintain a modest standard of living in their community. Researchers and governments have used different metrics to measure ... (Overview of poverty in Canada) [57%] 2024-01-19 [Poverty in Canada] [Child welfare in Canada]...
28. Poverty and obesity: Poverty and obesity are closely linked, but the relationship is complex. Whilst historically being overweight was predominantly seen in the upper class as a sign of wealth and prestige, recent trends show a somewhat different picture. [57%] 2023-09-21
29. Wealth and Poverty: Wealth and Poverty is a best-selling 1981 non-fiction book by investor and author George Gilder. A second edition was published in 2012. (Finance) [57%] 2023-12-05 [Economics books]
30. Global Poverty Act: The Global Poverty Act was a bill in the U.S. Congress co-sponsored by 84 Representatives and 30 Senators. [57%] 2023-08-28 [Proposed legislation of the 110th United States Congress]
31. Light poverty: Light poverty is the state or condition in which people or communities lack artificial or electric light after sunset. This originates from many social and economic reasons, including inability to afford efficient lighting. (Finance) [70%] 2023-08-17 [Economic problems]
32. Fuel poverty: A household is said to be in fuel poverty when its members cannot afford to keep adequately warm at a reasonable cost, given their income. The term is mainly used in the UK, Ireland and New Zealand, although discussions on ... (Physics) [70%] 2023-07-24 [Heating]
33. Child poverty: Child poverty refers to the state of children living in poverty and applies to children from poor families and orphans being raised with limited or no state resources. UNICEF estimates that 356 million children live in extreme poverty. (Children living in poverty) [70%] 2024-01-13 [Child poverty]
34. Relational poverty: Relational poverty is the idea that societal poverty exists if there is a lack of human relationships. One can have impaired relations with individuals in various degrees of severity. [70%] 2023-07-16 [Poverty] [Homelessness]...
35. Near poverty: Near poverty in economics refers to the state of living on an income marginally above the poverty line, defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as a household with an income "between 100 percent and 125 percent of the poverty ... (State of living on income marginally above poverty) [70%] 2023-12-30 [Poverty in the United States]
36. Rural poverty: Rural poverty arises out of factors of rural society, rural economy and rural political systems. A widely shared assumption is that rural poverty in the modern era operates on somewhat different dynamics than class-based urban poverty, although social science ... [70%] 2023-06-09
37. Measuring poverty: Poverty is measured in different ways by different bodies, both governmental and nongovernmental. Measurements can be absolute, which references a single standard, or relative, which is dependent on context. (Overview about the measure of poverty) [70%] 2024-01-12 [Measurements and definitions of poverty] [Development economics]...
38. Concentrated poverty: Concentrated poverty concerns the spatial distribution of socio-economic deprivation, specifically focusing on the density of poor populations. Within the United States, common usage of the term concentrated poverty is observed in the fields of policy and scholarship referencing areas ... (Social) [70%] 2023-11-25 [Social issues] [Economic inequality]...
39. Child poverty: Child poverty concerns poverty of people under the age of 18. Some possible effects of child poverty, some which may also be causations of poverty as mentioned above, thus conforming what's known as a "poverty cycle" and complicating the ... [70%] 2023-03-08 [Affordable housing] [Development]...
40. Eliminating poverty: This is a learning and research project about how to eliminate poverty on Earth. Poverty is tragic. [70%] 2023-04-08 [Poverty] [Social problems]...
41. Rural poverty: Rural poverty refers to situations where people living in non-urban regions are in a state or condition of lacking the financial resources and essentials for living. It takes account of factors of rural society, rural economy, and political systems ... (Poverty in rural areas, which are often less developed than urban areas worldwide) [70%] 2023-11-20 [Poverty] [Rural development]...
42. Secondary poverty: Secondary poverty is a description of poverty referring to those living below the poverty line whose income was sufficient for them to live above the line, but was spent on things other than the necessities of life. In 18th and ... [70%] 2022-09-27 [Measurements and definitions of poverty]