Poverty

thumb|An Afghan woman doing microfinanced sewing work Microfinance consists of financial services designated for individuals and small businesses (SMEs) who lack access to conventional banking and related services.

dependence on wages or salary

set of poverty phenomena that most frequently affect women

thumb|Engraving by John Warner Barber of a person chasing off a beggar with a stick to illustrate the [[rich man and Lazarus biblical parable]]

thumb|right|upright=1.25|A sweatshop in the United States c. 1890 A sweatshop or sweat factory is a cramped workplace with very poor and/or illegal working conditions, including little to no breaks, inadequate work space, insufficient lighting and ventilation, or uncomfortably or dangerously high or low temperatures. The work may be difficult, tiresome, dangerous, climatically challenging, or underpaid. Employees in sweatshops may work long hours with unfair wages, regardless of laws mandating overtime pay or a minimum wage; child labor laws may also be violated. Women make up 85 to 90% of swe

Poorhouses were public institutions used from the seventeenth through the early twentieth centuries to provide relief for people unable to support themselves, including the elderly, the sick, people with disabilities, widows, and others. In North America—particularly in the United States and Canada—they were usually operated by local governments and often took the form of “poor farms,” where residents who were able to work were expected to contribute labor. thumb|Onondaga County Poorhouse, New York Poorhouses developed from earlier systems of poor relief influenced by the English Poor Laws and

lack of access to modern energy services

social class of working people whose incomes fall below a poverty line due to low-income jobs and low familial household income

searching refuse bins for edible food &/or useful items

informal fallacy linking wisdom to poverty

one of the major approaches to the measurement of absolute poverty in developing countries

state of extreme poverty, sadness or distress

craft and profession of collecting waste for reuse or sale

lack of or inadequate access to affordable and safe menstrual products, hygiene facilities, or menstrual education

measures to reduce poverty permanently

A person's livelihood (derived from life-lode, "way of life"; cf. OG lib-leit) refers to their "means of securing the basic necessities (food, water, shelter and clothing) of life". Livelihood is defined as a set of activities essential to everyday life that are conducted over one's life span. Such activities could include securing water, food, fodder, medicine, shelter, clothing. An individual's livelihood involves the capacity to acquire aforementioned necessities in order to satisfy the basic needs of themselves and their household. The activities are usually carried out repeatedly and in a

tactics through media showing poverty to elicit sympathy

system of social welfare provision that guarantees that all citizens or families have an income sufficient to live on, provided they meet certain conditions

practice of salvaging reusable or recyclable materials thrown away by others

economic occurence

diseases more prevalent in low-income populations

access to feminine hygiene products and disposal of used products

Precarity (also precariousness) is a precarious existence, lacking in predictability, job security, material or psychological welfare. The social class defined by this condition has been termed the precariat.

Correlation of disproportionate impacts of climate on impoverished people

child who returns to an empty home after school or a child who is often left at home with no supervision

Microinsurance is the protection of low-income people (defined as those living on more than approximately $1 but less than $4 per day) against specific perils in exchange for regular premium payment proportionate to the likelihood and cost of the risks involved. This definition is exactly the same as one might use for regular insurance except for the clearly prescribed target market: low-income people. The target population typically consists of persons ignored by mainstream commercial and social insurance schemes, as well as persons who have not previously had access to appropriate insurance

process of reducing the complexity and cost of a good and its production

poverty in rural areas, which are often less developed than urban areas worldwide