The phrase "absolutely poor" can be correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to emphasize the degree or intensity of someone's poverty. For example: 1. "Despite working multiple jobs, John's family was still absolutely poor and struggled to make ends meet." 2. "The conditions in the slums were absolutely poor, with no access to clean water or proper sanitation." 3. "The government's efforts to alleviate poverty have been insufficient, leaving many families in rural areas absolutely poor." In these examples, "absolutely poor" adds emphasis to the level of poverty being described. It is often used in a similar way to "extremely poor" or "desperately poor."
"Our family was absolutely poor.
It took 20 years to reduce the number of absolutely poor people from 1.9 billion in 1990 to 1.2 billion in 2010 (a fall of less than half).
One of the targets for the millennium development goals, announced by the UN in 2000, was to halve the global proportion of absolutely poor people by 2015.
At the time the target was announced, the definition of an absolutely poor person was anyone living on an income of less than $1 a day.
The trend is in that direction but the gaps are still enormous, and within these countries there is huge inequality there are a number of large, middle income countries where the greater part of the population is absolutely poor and without even the most basic human needs.
We shouldn't get carried away: 1.2 billion absolutely poor people is still 1.2 billion too many, and the concentration of extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, combined with a rapidly growing population, has meant that the number of people in poverty there has gone upwards, even as the proportion has gone down.
Some 77% of countries will be poorer in per capital income than otherwise, and some--5% of all countries and 43% of less-developed countries--will be absolutely poorer at the turn of the next century than they are today.
The MED group, in our analysis, was absolutely poor-risk group because about two-thirds of patients were high-intermediate to high risk according to IPI.
I remember working as a summer camp councillor in my 20s and absolutely despising poor Russell Banks Bookk of Jamaica, yet never allowing myself to read something else because I had already started it.
We are absolutely alone, poor and hopeless.
Table 12 further indicates that capital-using technological change (Scenario 1) is neither absolutely pro-poor nor relative pro-poor, as all of the six indices are negative.
