poverty
贫困,贫穷,贫困问题,穷困
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- : the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor.
- : deficiency of necessary or desirable ingredients, qualities, etc.: poverty of the soil.
- : scantiness; insufficiency: Their efforts to stamp out disease were hampered by a poverty of medical supplies.
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China has made remarkable, remarkable strides in the past 20 years, lifting a half a billion people out of poverty.
The crop is so important that government insiders consider its development synonymous with the eradication of poverty in Malaysia.
Such a shift in population is likely to increase poverty and widen the gulf between the rich and the poor.
Its 2008 adoption of GM cotton for smallholder farmers was hailed as an example of how these technologies could alleviate poverty and food insecurity by protecting crops from pests and increasing yields.
Whether a kid faces poverty or neglect, “the way you start out in life tends to continue,” Gunnar says.
Getting men to do their share of care and domestic work is a key overlooked strategy in reducing poverty.
It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time.
The losers have always been children in poverty, children of color, and children with disabilities.
Nor do these studies address the structural and systematic issues that contribute to obesity, such as poverty and stress.
World peace, religious tolerance, and an end to global poverty, hunger, and disease.
And our views of poverty and social betterment, or what is possible and what is not, are still largely conditioned by it.