Language and Poverty
What is Poverty? The popular notion of poverty is that it is a deficit, a state of not having enough material goods nor the means to acquire them. Yet scholars of development have identified for us that poverty is a multi-dimensional phenomenon.e.g. 3; 7; 13; 16 Chambers identifies poverty as being more than material and speaks of poverty as a state of entanglement in a web of
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