under stress of poverty

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• Low-Income Countries Under Stress — (LICUS) is a World Bank program aimed at poverty reduction in developing countries.ource* [http://www.uiowa.edu/ifdebook/briefings/docs/LICUS.shtml Low Income Countries Under Stress (LICUS): A World Bank Program, by Karen L. Helgeson] …   Wikipedia

• Stress (biological) — Stress is a biological term which refers to the consequences of the failure of a human or animal body to respond appropriately to emotional or physical threats to the organism, whether actual or imagined. [ The Stress of Life , Hans Selye, 1956.] …   Wikipedia

• Poverty in India — One third of India s population (roughly equivalent to the entire population of the United States) lives below the poverty line and India is home to one third of the world s poor people.Though the middle class has gained from recent positive… …   Wikipedia

• poverty — A state in which resources, usually material but sometimes cultural, are lacking. It is common to distinguish between absolute and relative definitions of poverty. Poverty defined in absolute terms refers to a state in which the individual lacks… …   Dictionary of sociology

• Concentrated poverty — refers to a spatial density of socio economic deprivation. In the US it is commonly used in fields of policy and scholarship in reference to areas of extreme or high poverty defined by the US census as areas with 40 percent of the tract… …   Wikipedia

• Child poverty — A boy from an East Cipinang trash dump slum in Jakarta, Indonesia shows his find. Child poverty refers to the phenomenon of children living in poverty. This applies to children that come from poor families or orphans being raised with limited, or …   Wikipedia

• Diseases of poverty — is a term sometimes used to collectively describe diseases and health conditions that are more prevalent among the poor than among wealthier people. In many cases poverty is considered the leading risk factor or determinant for such diseases, and …   Wikipedia

• Housing stress — describes a situation where the cost of housing (either as rental, or as a mortgage) is high relative to household income. It may also be used to describe inadequate housing for a proportion of the population.As a general rule of thumb, a… …   Wikipedia

• Psychological resilience — Resilience in psychology is the positive capacity of people to cope with stress and catastrophe. It is also used to indicate a characteristic of resistance to future negative events. In this sense resilience corresponds to cumulative protective… …   Wikipedia

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• ancient Rome — ▪ ancient state, Europe, Africa, and Asia Introduction       the state centred on the city of Rome. This article discusses the period from the founding of the city and the regal period, which began in 753 BC, through the events leading to the… …   Universalium