extreme poverty
collocation in Englishmeaningsofextremeandpoverty
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extreme
adjective
uk/ɪkˈstriːm/us/ɪkˈstriːm/
very large in amount ...
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poverty
noun[U]
uk/ˈpɒv.ə.ti/us/ˈpɑː.vɚ.t̬i/
the condition of being ...
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(Definition ofextremeandpovertyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Perhaps most importantly, she namedextremepovertyas the single biggest obstacle to broad-based civic and democratic participation by women.
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The ministers were not distinguished by any disability (blindness, old age,extremepoverty) and their relief appears dependent on their status as clergy.
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All this, she claimed, constituted the most effective means of comprehending the moral environment ofextremepoverty.
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Through the 1990s, these coping strategies became essential to prevent slipping intoextremepovertyand famine.
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Yet the country continues to be troubled by widespreadextremepoverty, particularly in rural areas.
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Specifically,extremepovertymight be expected to exert more sustained and chronic stress on both women and their children.
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The success of the programmes intended both to restrict public expenditure and to relieveextremepovertyby targeting resources has been elusive.
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After an accident, or in sickness, families received temporary support, and on the margins ofextremepovertythere were families who received partial help in winter when farming employment dwindled.
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In either case, supplementing a lowincome worker's retirement benefits would help solidify labour force attachment and mitigate against the prospect ofextremepovertyin old age.
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Where there is data available there is evidence of an increase in levels ofextremepoverty, partially, at least, caused by a reduction in welfare payments.
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Thus, we hypothesized that among the families we studied, the greater stress ofextremepovertycombined with high maternal depressive symptoms might produce patterns of hypocortisolism among children.
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It compares the income per capita of a household with the cost of a basic basket of goods for consumption, creating through this method anextremepovertyline.
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At first glance, a country marked byextremepovertyand a long history of political instability and social divisions seems a poor candidate for even this guarded assessment.
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As we know, 98% of the children in our world living inextremepovertyare living in developing countries.
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The country is exhausted and impoverished by endless partisan wars and separatist fighting and people are suffering fromextremepoverty.
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We set targets for eliminatingextremepovertyin those countries.
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Women face multiple discrimination – elder women, women belonging to ethnic minorities, disabled women, lone parents – and are potential victims of social exclusion andextremepoverty.
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The pride of parents in raising their children, even inextremepoverty, cannot be measured quantitatively.
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It is true that we reduced poverty from 40% to 18%, andextremepovertyfrom 12.9% to 4%.
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