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destitution  

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  • DESTITUTION IS A FORM of poverty in which people are so lacking in material goods that they have nothing. The devastation may be caused by cataclysmic natural disasters or due to human-caused disasters such as war. [Source: Encyclopedia of World Poverty; Destitution]

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