relative poverty
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrelativeandpoverty
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relative
adjective
uk/ˈrel.ə.tɪv/us/ˈrel.ə.t̬ɪv/
being judged or measured in comparison with ...
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poverty
noun[U]
uk/ˈpɒv.ə.ti/us/ˈpɑː.vɚ.t̬i/
the condition of being ...
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(Definition ofrelativeandpovertyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There are, to be sure, fewer inscriptions and no very lengthy ones, but that too reflects therelativepovertyof public culture.
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Most striking is the proportion of elderly under therelativepovertymeasure: 25 per cent of those defined as poor using this measure are elderly.
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This is due to a mix of subjectivity and arbitrariness in howrelativepovertyis defined and measured.
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More importantly,relativepovertyis argued to be an 'ill-defined and chaotic' concept (p. 21).
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A major problem in the scholastic discourse of fundamentalism is therelativepovertyof what might be called a comparative sociology of the subject.
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Attention is given torelativepovertyand financial dependence within households, as types of economic constraint.
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Again, the call for a practice-orientated research project reveals therelativepovertyof theory.
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As noted above, 20.8 per cent of people were classified as poor using therelativepovertymeasure, while 16.5 per cent had high debt-to-income ratios.
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In this study, we rely on the relative concept of poverty4 and use 50 per cent of median income as therelativepovertythreshold.
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On the other hand, there is absolute andrelativepoverty.
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For as wealth increases so does the perception ofrelativepoverty.
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Both absolute andrelativepovertysignificantly increase under-five mortality.
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Therefore, the measurement of financial dependence in this analysis will be linked to the measurement ofrelativepoverty.
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Now we turn to the decommodifying effects of social policies based onrelativepovertyreduction effectiveness scores.
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For instance, a relief ratio of more than 1.0 means that those particular benefits alone can help the household escape fromrelativepoverty.
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The aim was to test a methodology and establish, albeit tentatively, arelativepovertythreshold for this group.
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In this instance, when deprivation is falling markedly many people may not regard rising numbers falling below arelativepovertyline as an unambiguous increase in poverty.
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She argues that therelativepovertyof older women reflects, not just the gendered accumulation of pension provision, but also the divorce process, which favours men over women.
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