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1Poverty and Pauperism — • Persons whose existence is dependent for any considerable period upon charitable assistance, whether this assistance be public or private. Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Poverty and Pauperism Poverty and Paup …
2Poverty — • Discusses poverty as a concept and canonical discipline Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Poverty Poverty † …
3Poverty in China — refers to people whose income is less than a poverty line of $1 per day (PPP) set by the World Bank benchmark (see Measuring poverty). Poverty has affected all aspects of the nation’s life, including the environment, health, education, housing,… …
4poverty — poverty, indigence, penury, want, destitution, privation all denote the state of one who is poor or without enough to live upon. Poverty, the most comprehensive of these terms, typically implies such deficiency of resources that one is deprived… …
5Cycle of poverty — In economics, the cycle of poverty is the set of factors or events by which poverty, once started, is likely to continue unless there is outside intervention. [1] The cycle of poverty has been defined as a phenomenon where poor families become… …
6Climate change and poverty — link a process and a condition that are interrelated. While the effects of climate change and global warming will have direct effects on the natural environment especially on agriculture, the impact on human civilization is also of concern.… …
7Concentrated poverty — refers to a spatial density of socio economic deprivation. In the US it is commonly used in fields of policy and scholarship in reference to areas of extreme or high poverty defined by the US census as areas with 40 percent of the tract… …
8Measuring poverty — Map of world poverty by country, showing percentage of population living on less than $1.25 per day. Unfortunately, information is missing for some countries …
9Asset poverty — is an economic and social condition that is more persistent and prevalent than income poverty. It can be defined as a household’s inability access wealth resources that are sufficient enough to provide for basic needs for a period of three months …
10Honorary degree — For other degrees, see Academic degree. Not to be confused with an honours degree. An honorary degree[1] or a degree honoris causa (Latin: for the sake of the honour ) is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree awarding… …
