poverty threshold

collocation in English

meaningsofpovertyandthreshold

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poverty
noun[U]
uk
/ˈpɒv.ə.ti/us
/ˈpɑː.vɚ.t̬i/
the condition of being ...
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threshold
noun
uk
/ˈθreʃ.həʊld/us
/ˈθreʃ.hoʊld/
the floor of an entrance to a building ...
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(Definition ofpovertyandthresholdfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpoverty threshold

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This then is our proposedpovertythresholdfor single elders.
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Our research suggests that single elders do prioritise their spending as incomes decline below thepovertythreshold.
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This of course means that ourpovertythresholdmay be slightly higher than it should be.
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In this study, we rely on the relative concept of poverty4 and use 50 per cent of median income as the relativepovertythreshold.
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The aim was to test a methodology and establish, albeit tentatively, a relativepovertythresholdfor this group.
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Individuals who experience changes in income may be unaware of thepovertythreshold, and are therefore unaware whether that change has taken them into poverty.
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However, according to ourpovertythreshold, living on this amount causes major hardship for respondents and does not appear to permit them to meet even basic needs.
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However, because the threshold is established to the nearest $1,000, these two effects are likely to offset each other, providing us with some confidence in the reliability of ourpovertythreshold.
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Our proposedpovertythresholdis only to the nearest $1000 income group but if the sample size had been greater a more refined threshold could have been found.
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We also identify their main coping strategies across a range of expenditure categories, permitting us to assess the impact on living standards, given incomes below our definedpovertythreshold.
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The intention is to reduce the numbers falling below thepovertythreshold, especially among lower-paid workers, as well as workforce mobilisation, meeting both the social and economic goals of modernisation.
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This may be because buying such items is less important than, say, buying food, and therefore miscellaneous expenses are cut first as incomes drop below ourpovertythreshold.
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Over 400 structured interviews were conducted and apovertythresholdof $7,000 per month was identified as the minimum required by single elders to enjoy a decent style of living.
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This suggests that even respondents with incomes above ourpovertythresholdwould choose to use public services and would be unable to afford private medical care.
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Unemployment is in the order of 80%, and 40% of the unemployed are living below thepovertythreshold.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
A lone parent in the same position with two young children would be £37 above thepovertythreshold—a gap of £54 between those two family units.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
35 % of the population are below thepovertythreshold.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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