poverty
111Poverty industry — The poverty industry refers to a wide range of money making activities that attract a large portion of their business from the poor. Many business types are included in the poverty industry such as: payday loan centers, pawnshops, casinos, liquor …
112Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility — The Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) is an arm of the International Monetary Fund which lends to the world s poorest countries. It was created in September 1999, replacing the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility.PRGF supported… …
113Poverty in South Asia — ▪ 1998 by H.Y. Sharada Prasad The South Asian region, which comprises India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and Maldives, in 1997 accounted for one fifth of the world s population, two thirds of its absolute poor, and one… …
114poverty-stricken — ADJ: usu ADJ n Poverty stricken people or places are extremely poor. ...a teacher of poverty stricken kids... The Pope is visiting some of the most poverty stricken areas of the city. Syn: poor …
115poverty trap — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms poverty trap : singular poverty trap plural poverty traps a situation in which someone remains poor because they cannot get a job that will pay them more money than they get from the government …
116poverty is no disgrace, but it is a great inconvenience — 1591 J. FLORIO Second Fruits 105 Neuer be ashamed of thy calling, for Pouertie is no vice, though it be an inconvenience. 1721 J. KELLY Scottish Proverbs 278 Poortha [poverty] is a Pain, but no Disgrace. Unless it be the Effects of Laziness, and… …
117Poverty 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. K. Prahalad, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid. An earlier… …
118poverty-stricken — /pov euhr tee strik euhn/, adj. suffering from poverty; extremely poor: poverty stricken refugees. [1795 1805] * * * …
119POVERTY ROW — The really cheap B Westerns were produced in what was loosely called poverty row, a section of Los Angeles near Gower Street and Sunset Boulevard. Here numerous short lived studios churned out quickly made films full of stock footage and… …
120poverty line — The ‘line’ that sets the boundary, and consequently the numbers, of the poor. There is much controversy over where and how it should be drawn. In Britain, the most common definition of poverty involves drawing the line in terms of the receipt of… …
