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 Learn more about Poverty in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
'Poverty' is a subjective and comparative term describing a lack of sufficient wealth (usually understood as capital, money, material goods, or resources especially natural resources) to live what is understood in a society as a "normal" life: for instance, to be capable of raising a healthy family, and especially educating children and participating in society.
Poverty is often strongly correlated with social problems, such as crime and disease (notably sexually transmitted diseases), sometimes in epidemic form.
In law, poverty is recognised, in most developed countries, as a mitigating factor for the determination of the punishment, being usually considered coincident with a generic and permanent state of need which can affect and alter the correct capability of clearly or freely identifying the legally and socially acceptable behaviour.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /p/po/poverty.html   (682 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Poverty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Poverty may be seen as the collective condition of poor people, or of poor groups, and in this sense entire nation-states are sometimes regarded as poor.
For example, the relief of poverty was recognised as a legal charitable purpose by the English Statute of Charitable Uses (Statute of Elizabeth) in 1601.
In economics and sociology, the cycle of poverty, or poverty cycle is a social phenomena whereby poverty-stricken individuals exhibit a tendency to remain poor throughout their lifespan and in many cases across generations.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Poverty   (3312 words)

  
 Persons Below Poverty Level, 1975–2003
Income growth and future poverty rates of the aged.
Trickling down the rising tide: new estimates of the link between poverty and the macroeconomy.
Triggering movements into and out of child poverty: a comparative study of New Zealand, Britain and West Germany.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0104525.html   (192 words)

  
 »»Price-indexes Reviews««
However, the most compelling part is Dr. Baker's reconstruction of recent U.S. economic history using Boskin's implied measure of prices.
He shows that 50% of families were apparently living below the 1994 poverty level in 1960.
However, until supporters of CPI overstatement can explain away Dr. Baker's findings about implied poverty levels, their arguments will ring hollow.
www.financial-book-review.com /Presale-order/Price-indexes   (1425 words)

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