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Poverty trap Moderate

Poverty trap has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a situation in which an increase in income results in a loss of benefits so that you are no better off

2

A self-reinforcing cycle which allows poverty to persist.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
situation
Rhyming Words
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