The phrase "artificial poverty" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where poverty is created or maintained through artificial means, such as policies or economic systems that prevent individuals from achieving financial stability.
Example: "The government's economic policies have led to a state of artificial poverty, trapping many families in a cycle of dependency."
Alternatives: "manufactured poverty" or "contrived poverty".
"Luxury," Socrates once declared, "is artificial poverty".
Unmaking shows that these claims are false, for the public university's apparent private wealth derives from restricted revenues, hidden leveraging, and masked cross-subsidies, the latter of which also impose artificial poverty on the humanities and social sciences.
She tells Moyers, "Democracy has been meant to remove the artificial constraints, poverty is the huge artificial constraint on human thought and action.
The comparison of instruments and atmospheres was fascinating, but the mixing had an artificial, rather botched flavour, highlighting the poverty of the musical ideas.
In the morning, when we arrived in Abuja — the Brasília of Nigeria, an artificial capital city distant from the poverty of Lagos and the villages — Clinton was worn out and in a foul mood.
Hassabis spoke of building artificial scientists to resolve climate change, disease, poverty.
As an example, Noor (2008) used "remotely sensed night-time light as a proxy for poverty in Africa," indirectly assuming that artificial lighting is a good social development index.
This is a hard-luck, poverty-plagued region, and raising catfish in artificial ponds was one of the few mainstays.
ATCA addresses opportunities and threats arising from climate chaos, radical poverty, organised crime, extremism, informatics, nanotechnology, robotics, genetics, artificial intelligence and financial systems.
Wages for the braceros were set by law, around $1 an hour in California, and in effect established an artificial ceiling on the wages of American farm workers, keeping them in poverty.
It's quite another to set up a representative democratic government with strong civil institutions, especially in fragmented nations still wracked by deep poverty which have been forced by tyrants into a fragile, artificial, iron-fist-imposed "stability" for decades.
