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primary poverty  

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  • Primary poverty is a term Seebohmn Rowntree applied to a categorization of poverty, giving rise to the term Seebohmn Rowntree’s poverty line to describe people or groups living below the line of primary poverty. Living below the line of primary poverty means to live with insufficient income to afford basic needs. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty; Primary Poverty]

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

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