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Global map of countries by poverty headcount ratio at $6.85 a day (2017 PPP) (% of population), 2021 [3] This is a list of countries and territories by percentage of population living in poverty, as recorded by the World Bank and International Labour Organization. Poverty is about not having enough money to meet basic needs including food ...
e. The social determinants of health in poverty describe the factors that affect impoverished populations' health and health inequality. Inequalities in health stem from the conditions of people's lives, including living conditions, work environment, age, and other social factors, and how these affect people's ability to respond to illness. [1]
Working poor. The working poor are working people whose incomes fall below a given poverty line due to low-income jobs and low familial household income. These are people who spend at least 27 weeks in a year working or looking for employment, but remain under the poverty threshold. [1]
Socioeconomic status (SES) is an economic and sociological combined total measure of a person's work experience and of an individual's or family's access to economic resources and social position in relation to others. [1][2] When analyzing a family's SES, the household income and the education and occupations of its members are examined ...
Cycle of poverty. In economics, a cycle of poverty or poverty trap is when poverty seems to be inherited, preventing subsequent generations from escaping it. [1] It is caused by self-reinforcing mechanisms that cause poverty, once it exists, to persist unless there is outside intervention. [2] It can persist across generations, and when applied ...
Poverty reduction, poverty relief, or poverty alleviation is a set of measures, both economic and humanitarian, that are intended to permanently lift people out of poverty. Measures, like those promoted by Henry George in his economics classic Progress and Poverty, are those that raise, or are intended to raise, ways of enabling the poor to ...
Absolute poverty is a lack of basic necessities, based on a set income level. Per World Bank guidelines, people living on less than $2.15 a day are considered to be living in extreme poverty. This generally applies to people in low income countries. For lower middle-income countries, the delineation is $3.20 a day.
Buildings in Rio de Janeiro, demonstrating economic inequality. Effects of income inequality, researchers have found, include higher rates of health and social problems, and lower rates of social goods, [1] a lower population-wide satisfaction and happiness [2][3] and even a lower level of economic growth when human capital is neglected for ...