The phrase "amount of poverty" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the extent or level of poverty in a particular context, such as in economic reports or social studies.
Example: "The report highlighted the alarming amount of poverty affecting families in the region."
Alternatives: "level of poverty" or "degree of poverty".
What Cristina doesn't take into account is the amount of poverty she will be creating with her whimsical behaviour".
Although oil rich, there is a phenomenal amount of poverty throughout the country, inevitably leading to crime.
You have an overwhelming amount of poverty that tilts the dynamics, the behavior and the perception of the city.
Instead he said that Mr. Oldenburg was "more in touch with the underside of that economic moment; he's around a fair amount of poverty and misery".
"I just think that globally the amount of poverty, the disparity of wealth in the world is so disgusting and in America is just smoothed over with the jingles of corporations," he says, becoming more animated with each word.
It was only in the 1890s, when social researchers such as Charles Booth and Seebohm Rowntree started knocking on doors and actually counting poor people, that Victorian Britain got a sense of the sheer amount of poverty in their midst.
Second, although South Africa has significant wealth, it also contains huge amounts of poverty and need, including one of the most significant HIV/AIDS problems worldwide.
One would be forgiven for thinking so but that is certainly not a given.Here's the rub: A significant amount of world poverty could easily remain in stable middle-income countries (figure 3).Figure 3.
The report calls the amount of food poverty in the UK a "national disgrace".
Despite the new wealth for the Chavez family and Venezuela's governing clique, the country suffers from elevated amounts of "critical" poverty and is currently one of the most violent countries in the world.
U.S. schools with smaller amounts of student poverty scored as high as 551, which trumped scores from high-ranking South Korea and Singapore and put us five points behind No. 1-ranking Shanghai.
