chronic poverty

collocation in English

meaningsofchronicandpoverty

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chronic
adjective
uk
/ˈkrɒn.ɪk/us
/ˈkrɑː.nɪk/
(especially of a disease or something bad) continuing for a ...
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poverty
noun[U]
uk
/ˈpɒv.ə.ti/us
/ˈpɑː.vɚ.t̬i/
the condition of being ...
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(Definition ofchronicandpovertyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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However, as they argue,chronicpovertycould equally be conceptualised as the experience of poverty in a large proportion of time periods.
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In a social environment dominated bychronicpovertyand disintegrating family bonds, many young males and (less visibly) young females began to group themselves into neighbourhood gangs.
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Thechronicpovertyand deprivation of so much of the underdeveloped world are a slur on the name of civilisation.
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Those resources can provide the key that will unlock the door to escape fromchronicpoverty.
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The less-developed world needs more buying power, more aid transfers on generous terms and more intelligent support in its efforts to alleviatechronicpoverty.
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We arc the victims of our ownchronicpoverty, and at the mercy of all who wish to take advantage of it.
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Chronicpovertyremains the greatest obstacle to fulfilling children's rights.
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This huge continent is still beset with a lack of democracy, war, human rights violations, drought, flooding andchronicpovertyaffecting large parts of its population.
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For part of the person concerned, this means permanent unemployment and persistentchronicpoverty.
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It was caused by an early end to the 2004 rains, desert locust damage to some pasture lands, high food prices, andchronicpoverty.
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Despite extensive redevelopment, throughout the 1980s and 1990s the area experiencedchronicpoverty, deprivation and unemployment.
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This gives greater weight to its work in the human rights field and other essential issues in the fight againstchronicpoverty.
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They did not in part due to local government and the civic responsibilities that lifted the poor out ofchronicpoverty.
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His research has focused on the analysis of the role of public and private investments agriculture and public infrastructure in the fight againstchronicpovertyand hunger.
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Due to her more fortunate circumstances, she could never fully grasp the trauma and the aftermath of the gas leak or thechronicpovertywhich plagued the city.
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