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secondary poverty  

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  • THE MEASUREMENT OF poverty, and what constitutes poverty, have varied over time as well as across disciplines. One common means for determining poverty has been the amount of income earned within a calendar year. [Source: Encyclopedia of World Poverty; Secondary Poverty]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/secondary_poverty

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