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scientific definitions of poverty  

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  • SCIENCE CAN BE DEFINED as the systematic application of human reason in order to answer specific questions about a subject of study. Poverty as a subject of study evokes a variety of questions with a corresponding variety of definitions and answers. [Source: Encyclopedia of World Poverty; Scientific Definitions of Poverty]

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