No less than an opportunity to escape destitution.
Another source of slavery was self-sale, undertaken sometimes to obtain an elite position, sometimes to escape destitution.
But unless policymakers change their structural circumstances, most mothers will likely do whatever they must to escape destitution.
The McKinsey Global Institute in 2014 claims that, if one were to factor in access to amenities we traditionally associate with life above the poverty line, it would take a 50percentt larger income than the government's projects to escape destitution, leaving 56percentt of the population in privation.
"For most Indians, the primary driver in their migration was to escape economic destitution, which at that time had been intensified by repressive British taxation after the 'Mutiny' of 1857," Mr. Arora writes.
Those were peak famine years, and most immigrants who passed through were Irish escaping hunger and destitution and Germans escaping political turmoil in their homeland.
The issue of eliminating cotton subsidies should take center stage at the coming global trade talks if we are serious about helping millions of impoverished people escape poverty and destitution.
The World Bank study also points out that in the same period as so many supposedly escaped on-paper destitution, 9percentt of Indians also slipped backwards over the poverty line.
Until now, non-British women escaping violence had no right to access refuges or benefits if they were on spousal visas – and so were faced with destitution if they chose to leave their husbands, or were thrown out by them.
As the best chance to escape their parents' destinies eludes these children, the cycle of destitution spins on.
