| 词汇 | example_english_relative-poverty |
| 释义 | relative povertycollocation in Englishmeanings of relativeand povertyThese words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or, see other collocations with poverty. relative adjective uk /ˈrel.ə.tɪv/ us /ˈrel.ə.t̬ɪv/ being judged or measured in comparison with ... See more at relative poverty noun[U] uk /ˈpɒv.ə.ti/ us /ˈpɑː.vɚ.t̬i/ the condition of being ... See more at poverty Examples of relative povertyThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. There are, to be sure, fewer inscriptions and no very lengthy ones, but that too reflects the relativepoverty of public culture. Most striking is the proportion of elderly under the relativepoverty measure: 25 per cent of those defined as poor using this measure are elderly. This is due to a mix of subjectivity and arbitrariness in how relativepoverty is defined and measured. More importantly, relativepoverty is argued to be an 'ill-defined and chaotic' concept (p. 21). A major problem in the scholastic discourse of fundamentalism is the relativepoverty of what might be called a comparative sociology of the subject. Attention is given to relativepoverty and financial dependence within households, as types of economic constraint. Again, the call for a practice-orientated research project reveals the relativepoverty of theory. As noted above, 20.8 per cent of people were classified as poor using the relativepoverty measure, while 16.5 per cent had high debt-to-income ratios. In this study, we rely on the relative concept of poverty4 and use 50 per cent of median income as the relativepoverty threshold. On the other hand, there is absolute and relativepoverty. For as wealth increases so does the perception of relativepoverty. Both absolute and relativepoverty significantly increase under-five mortality. Therefore, the measurement of financial dependence in this analysis will be linked to the measurement of relativepoverty. Now we turn to the decommodifying effects of social policies based on relativepoverty reduction effectiveness scores. For instance, a relief ratio of more than 1.0 means that those particular benefits alone can help the household escape from relativepoverty. The aim was to test a methodology and establish, albeit tentatively, a relativepoverty threshold for this group. In this instance, when deprivation is falling markedly many people may not regard rising numbers falling below a relativepoverty line as an unambiguous increase in poverty. She argues that the relativepoverty of older women reflects, not just the gendered accumulation of pension provision, but also the divorce process, which favours men over women. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Want to learn more? Go to the definition of relative Go to the definition of poverty See other collocations with poverty |
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