noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cycle of poverty/activity/birth and death etc
▪ the cycle of violence between the two countries
a vow of silence/poverty/celibacy etc
▪ People close to him have finally broken their vow of silence.
grinding poverty
▪ a country devastated by civil war and grinding poverty
lead a life of luxury/poverty etc
live in peace/poverty etc
▪ The people in this country just want to live in peace.
▪ People should not live in fear of crime.
▪ We live in hope that a cure will be found.
poverty line (=the point at which people are considered to be very poor)
▪ Large numbers of families are living on or near the poverty line.
tackle poverty
▪ He believes education is the long-term key to tackling poverty.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
abject
▪ Many such families are living in abject poverty at home or as refugees abroad, cut off from family and friends.
▪ The parasite has been nurtured by abject poverty, intermittent political chaos and, some charge, international indifference.
▪ A fifth of the world still lives in abject poverty: what we can do.
▪ Wealth was much more frequent than abject poverty.
▪ In a continent where economic successes are rare, authoritarianism may seem a lesser evil than abject poverty.
▪ The Sisters also try never to reject anyone in abject poverty, the hungry or starving.
▪ However, many people are living in abject poverty because of the poll tax.
▪ He was born in abject poverty with a family history of madness, yet grew up to take the world by storm.
absolute
▪ More than half of lone parents with two or more children had incomes below their absolute poverty level at £227 a week.
▪ The rich get richer and the rural population is doomed to remain in absolute poverty.
▪ As a whole group they are in relative or absolute poverty, in contrast to the general adult population of working age.
▪ Glare was to be observed in greater strictness and in absolute poverty.
▪ Health is the pivot around which an absolute concept of poverty revolves.
▪ This means that at least another 6 million children are living in absolute poverty but are not receiving benefits.
▪ Indeed, over the period in question, many tens of millions joined the hundreds of millions already suffering from absolute poverty.
▪ Relative poverty, more markedly than absolute poverty, clearly rose rapidly throughout the 1970s.
dire
▪ Grandmothers, on whose distressed faces the direst poverty was written, raised their arms in greeting.
▪ The overwhelming impression left by the survey is one of dire poverty.
▪ The youngsters are living in dire poverty in their home country.
extreme
▪ He moved there in 1920 and his first years were marked by extreme poverty.
▪ Chancey, who had never known his parents, was being raised by an old aunt in extreme poverty.
▪ For most, this was their first exposure to extreme poverty.
▪ He points out that the working classes consisted mainly of peasants forced off the land through extreme poverty.
high
▪ Many of those boroughs also have the worst housing, longest waiting lists and highest poverty levels of the country.
▪ Female-headed families also have an exceptionally high poverty rate in New York.
▪ Drop-out rates in rural areas are high, due to poverty and war.
▪ They also have among the highest poverty rates in the United States.
▪ So both lack of employment and low pay for those who are employed have contributed to the higher poverty rates.
▪ But the level of social welfare was so high that poverty was unthinkable.
relative
▪ Or they can decide that the main problem is that relative poverty got no better during the prosperous 1980s.
▪ You only attain new levels of relative poverty.
▪ As a whole group they are in relative or absolute poverty, in contrast to the general adult population of working age.
▪ What we do not yet know is how women's changing opportunities for paid work have affected their relative risk of poverty.
▪ But they are aware of their relative poverty.
▪ Nevertheless, a majority of Goyigamas, in common with the rest of the population, lived in relative poverty.
▪ In the first few days, too, I was made to realize my relative poverty.
rural
▪ Most of the loss is attributed to population growth and rural poverty, leading to land clearance for agriculture.
▪ Scattered about, a few large, forlorn sunflowers make a game attempt to brighten a scene of dismal rural poverty.
▪ Dole overcame both rural poverty and, even more remarkably, war wounds that might have killed a lesser person.
▪ There, governors were aggressively courting companies like Rohr to help offset high unemployment and rural poverty.
▪ These problems include those associated with rural poverty, malnutrition, population changes and environmental degradation in developing nations.
▪ For forty years villagers have streamed into its fetid blocks, seeking to escape rural poverty.
▪ Little public attention was paid to rural poverty before Rowntree undertook a survey in 1912.
▪ Rowntree attempted no detailed quantification of rural poverty, in view of the wide scope of his inquiry.
severe
▪ Infant mortality is frequently assumed to be an especially sensitive indicator of severe poverty.
▪ Polgar resolved to do the same, although for years it resulted in severe poverty.
▪ Walkerburn families had experienced severe poverty when the factory closed, yet the welfare state had failed to come to their rescue.
▪ We have seen that the proportion in severe poverty was considerably higher.
▪ The latter was everywhere a cause of severe poverty.
urban
▪ It may be that urban poverty then was no worse than poverty in the country.
▪ Can the problems of urban poverty be blamed on individual pathology?
▪ These policies were inpart based on assumptions about the causes of rural and urban poverty and low growth.
▪ The core issue is that of urban poverty.
■ NOUN
child
▪ At the other end of the spectrum, the impact of child poverty on failing schools has never properly been addressed.
▪ Liberals want more comprehensive child care, more programs to relieve child poverty.
▪ Treasury sources said that the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, believes child poverty is one of the most serious problems affecting Britain.
▪ There is increasing child poverty in our country.
▪ In 1993, the child poverty rate was higher than in any year since 1964.
▪ It wants child poverty abolished in 20 years; it aims to cancel third world debt.
▪ He then rattled off gains in employment and home ownership and declines in inflation and child poverty.
level
▪ More than half of lone parents with two or more children had incomes below their absolute poverty level at £227 a week.
▪ I was tired of eking out an existence near poverty level on my meager assistantship.
▪ Another 170,000 children will be lifted above poverty levels.
▪ She intends to put the Council on record as wanting to reduce the poverty level by 10 percent.
▪ Many of those boroughs also have the worst housing, longest waiting lists and highest poverty levels of the country.
▪ As many as 57 percent of New Yorkers live at or below the poverty level.
▪ However, poverty levels among land reform beneficiaries remain high, as do the levels of dissatisfaction that they express.
line
▪ The average shortfall of income beneath the poverty line for poor children has also fallen by 31.7 per cent.
▪ The panel further suggested adjusting the official poverty line for geographical differences in the cost of housing.
▪ Rowntree's stringent poverty line produced remarkably similar results to those of Booth.
▪ Hard work does not assure living above the poverty line.
▪ New statistics hurled at us: 70 percent of our fellow citizens live below the poverty line.
▪ We already cover children up to 150 percent of the poverty line.
▪ When millions around the world are being killed in war, dying from starvation or living below the poverty line?
▪ The gap between their needs and resources is likely to be even wider than the social security-based poverty line suggests.
rate
▪ So both lack of employment and low pay for those who are employed have contributed to the higher poverty rates.
▪ The poverty rate of children demonstrates this disturbing phenomenon even more dramatically.
▪ Since 1975, the infant and toddler poverty rate has grown by 33 percent.
▪ The poverty rate today stands at almost exactly the same level as in 1965.
▪ The poverty rate has risen by 35 percent for children under age 3 living with married parents.
▪ They are a fundamental part of the social safety net and have kept the poverty rate among the elderly relatively low.
▪ For families with children under age 5, the poverty rate quadrupled during the 1980s.
▪ In 1990, Tucson had a poverty rate 40 percent higher than Phoenix and almost double the rate of Las Vegas.
reduction
▪ The battle ahead is about what should be in the poverty reduction plans.
▪ The message of the White Paper is that countries need effective states and efficient markets to maximise the conditions for poverty reduction.
▪ It also calls for a stronger focus in all the multinational institutions on systemic poverty reductions.
▪ Improved nutrition, poverty reduction, maternal education and better medical services have combined to halve infant mortality.
▪ Anti-debt campaigners in the South are urging their counterparts in the North to challenge the official notion of poverty reduction.
▪ They have a shot at economic growth, poverty reduction and gains in health and education.
▪ This is a serious loss; the movement has raised the profile of debt relief and poverty reduction.
▪ In return, the two countries should make immediate peace and commit themselves to use the money for poverty reduction.
trap
▪ This is the phenomenon generally known as the poverty trap.
▪ Before 1988 the implicit tax rates associated with the poverty trap were also, in some cases, greater than 100%.
▪ This is likely to be particularly serious if either the poverty trap or the unemployment trap is encountered.
▪ It claimed 1.25 million people could be caught in the poverty trap.
▪ Caught in the poverty trap, they are unable to make the savings necessary for business ventures.
▪ There is no single point in the income scale where the poverty trap begins to operate.
▪ Many of them are capable of organising their lives with dignity but others fall into football's in-built poverty trap.
world
▪ Similarly, it is indefensible to be inactive in the face of third world poverty and famine.
▪ The charity used the occasion to call for fresh action to tackle the root causes of world poverty.
▪ The claim that aid is the answer to Third World poverty is then highly debatable.
▪ She has been involved with assisting at church services which were relevant to issues of world poverty.
■ VERB
alleviate
▪ What has the West done to alleviate poverty in the world, apart from its leaders making pious speeches?
▪ Money is being transferred from social programmes designed to alleviate poverty to penal programmes designed to control the poor.
▪ Critics claimed that economic success had done little to alleviate fundamental problems of poverty and the grossly unequal distribution of income.
▪ May we play our small part in helping to alleviate the poverty and suffering of the world.
▪ Yet the latest wheeze among policymakers in developed countries is to alleviate poverty in developing countries with computers and mobile phones.
▪ Although opposition to state action to alleviate poverty remained strong to the end of the century, countervailing pressures were growing.
end
▪ The anti-globalisation movement will accuse the Bretton Woods twins, whose goal is to end poverty, of causing it.
fight
▪ If the street protesters want to fight poverty, they should be celebrating globalization, not attacking it.
▪ All very nice but not helpful to fighting poverty.
▪ Analysts worry that poor infrastructure, especially in rural areas, will derail attempts to fight poverty.
grind
▪ Consequently, wage employment is the primary means by which they can be lifted out of grinding poverty.
▪ For generations the Sandovals, like millions of their fellow countrymen, had suffered from grinding poverty and deprivation.
▪ Until recently her life had been an endless cycle of grinding poverty and growing hopelessness.
increase
▪ Critics of popular capitalism argue that it is a programme for increasing inequality and poverty.
▪ War, repression and increasing poverty have driven ethnic groups in upon themselves.
▪ Rapid population growth is a problem, because it increases poverty and ill-health in societies where it occurs.
▪ The report notes that a combination of soil degradation and poor rainfall have increased food shortages and poverty.
▪ There is increasing child poverty in our country.
▪ Working-class women live in increasing poverty and are more vulnerable than middle-class women to state interference and control.
lift
▪ Through the development of community services and a decentralised, non-bureaucratic welfare state, we can lift people out of poverty and deprivation.
▪ Another 170,000 children will be lifted above poverty levels.
▪ Consequently, wage employment is the primary means by which they can be lifted out of grinding poverty.
▪ And the past two decades have delivered an extraordinary rate of growth that has lifted millions out of poverty.
▪ Figures will show 1.2 million children have been lifted out of poverty since Labour came to office.
▪ The Government's emphasis has been on lifting people out of poverty by getting them back to work.
live
▪ Thus more than twice as many older women as older men live in poverty or on its margins.
▪ Women are more likely than men to live in poverty and to face violence in our own homes.
▪ The villagers here are no exception to 70 per cent of the country's population who live below the poverty line.
▪ Between 1987 and 1992, the number of preschool children living in poverty increased from 5 to 6 million.
▪ In Louisiana, one person in four lives below the poverty level.
▪ More than one Washingtonian out of every four officially lives in poverty.
▪ The valley is beautiful, the solitude is bracing, but who wants to live in this poverty?
▪ Will these peoples continue to live in poverty and disease, or will they be brought up to modern standards of living?
reduce
▪ Fifty years of bilateral aid programmes does not seem to have done much to reduce global poverty.
▪ She intends to put the Council on record as wanting to reduce the poverty level by 10 percent.
▪ By 1852 James Lowe was reduced to poverty and Bermondsey had become a slum.
▪ So now is the time to start talking -- and doing -- something about reducing poverty in Tucson.
▪ He won great victories yet he reduced Prussia to poverty and starvation.
▪ In oil, they have an incredibly valuable resource that can be used to accelerate their economic development and reduce poverty.
▪ The most effective way to reduce poverty quickly is to increase child benefit and pensions and take low-paid people out of taxation.
relieve
▪ But such a strategy would serve primarily to relieve some symptoms of poverty rather than its cause.
▪ Liberals want more comprehensive child care, more programs to relieve child poverty.
suffer
▪ Indeed, over the period in question, many tens of millions joined the hundreds of millions already suffering from absolute poverty.
▪ Whatever they had been at home, now they suffered from the poverty and dislocation that came with their sudden upheaval.
▪ Joseph Lewis, an ivory turner, suffered excruciating poverty.
▪ For generations the Sandovals, like millions of their fellow countrymen, had suffered from grinding poverty and deprivation.
▪ As a result they suffer from poverty, physical hardship, neglect, sickness and disability, loneliness, humiliation and fear.
▪ She has always suffered from poverty.
▪ And that thought provides some of the reasons why this region suffers not only from poverty, but also from political powerlessness.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
abject poverty/misery/failure etc
▪ A central reason cited for the cutback was the abject failure of highly touted sports movies.
▪ But for some, who didn't get the grades they hoped for, there's abject misery.
▪ For the first three years he endured abject misery.
▪ Its strategy was an abject failure on its own terms, for the Gaullists romped home in the June elections.
▪ The parasite has been nurtured by abject poverty, intermittent political chaos and, some charge, international indifference.
▪ The Sisters also try never to reject anyone in abject poverty, the hungry or starving.
▪ Wealth was much more frequent than abject poverty.
▪ What these hopefuls achieved for their pleasure and pain was a violent lifestyle of abject poverty.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Poverty and unemployment are two of the biggest causes of crime
▪ Charles was shocked by the poverty he saw in India.
▪ In Louisiana, one person in four lives below the poverty level.
▪ Old people should not have to live in poverty.
▪ Seven out of every 10 Guatemalans live in dire poverty and half cannot read or write.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But merely examining national poverty statistics is not sufficient to understand the depth of poverty in the United States.
▪ Chancey, who had never known his parents, was being raised by an old aunt in extreme poverty.
▪ Desirelessness, or Hindu renunciation, it has been argued, leads to personal indifference and passivity and national poverty and stagnation.
▪ Rowntree emphasized that such poverty was not due to idleness.
▪ Theoretically, eliminating poverty and underdevelopment in the region should pose no problem.
▪ They are made by all Ministers who are confronted with allegations of student poverty and hardship.
▪ They are not in transition, they are developing countries and are sinking into poverty.