poverty threshold

collocation in English

meanings of povertyand threshold

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poverty
noun[U]
uk /ˈpɒv.ə.ti/ us /ˈpɑː.vɚ.t̬i/
the condition of being ...
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threshold
noun
uk /ˈθreʃ.həʊld/ us /ˈθreʃ.hoʊld/
the floor of an entrance to a building ...
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Examples of poverty threshold

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This then is our proposed povertythreshold for single elders.
Our research suggests that single elders do prioritise their spending as incomes decline below the povertythreshold.
This of course means that our povertythreshold may be slightly higher than it should be.
In this study, we rely on the relative concept of poverty4 and use 50 per cent of median income as the relative povertythreshold.
The aim was to test a methodology and establish, albeit tentatively, a relative povertythreshold for this group.
Individuals who experience changes in income may be unaware of the povertythreshold, and are therefore unaware whether that change has taken them into poverty.
However, according to our povertythreshold, living on this amount causes major hardship for respondents and does not appear to permit them to meet even basic needs.
However, because the threshold is established to the nearest $1,000, these two effects are likely to offset each other, providing us with some confidence in the reliability of our povertythreshold.
Our proposed povertythreshold is only to the nearest $1000 income group but if the sample size had been greater a more refined threshold could have been found.
We also identify their main coping strategies across a range of expenditure categories, permitting us to assess the impact on living standards, given incomes below our defined povertythreshold.
The intention is to reduce the numbers falling below the povertythreshold, especially among lower-paid workers, as well as workforce mobilisation, meeting both the social and economic goals of modernisation.
This may be because buying such items is less important than, say, buying food, and therefore miscellaneous expenses are cut first as incomes drop below our povertythreshold.
Over 400 structured interviews were conducted and a povertythreshold of $7,000 per month was identified as the minimum required by single elders to enjoy a decent style of living.
This suggests that even respondents with incomes above our povertythreshold would choose to use public services and would be unable to afford private medical care.
Unemployment is in the order of 80%, and 40% of the unemployed are living below the povertythreshold.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
A lone parent in the same position with two young children would be £37 above the povertythreshold—a gap of £54 between those two family units.
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35 % of the population are below the povertythreshold.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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