The "great redeeming feature of poverty," George Orwell wrote after his excursions in the social gutters of Paris and London, is "the fact that it annihilates the future".
Therefore, it is not only an important feature of poverty but also a potential cause.
William Vollman, in his well-known account of forms of poverty worldwide, has described "invisibility" as a key feature of poverty [13].
The first point should be obvious and not specific to developing cities; it is a feature of poverty everywhere.
The increasing feature of the feminization of poverty increases the vulnerability of women even as the MDGs focus on reducing this vulnerability of women by enhancing capacity and support systems.
We all have our own strategies for averting our vision from some of the less luminous features of life -- death, poverty, unfamiliar underwear in your lover's laundry.
The features of depression, incoherence and poverty of speech were also analysed to see if they could be having an effect on the patients ToM and Physical joke performance but there were no significant findings.
It takes in such immense and depressing features of the human landscape as poverty, inequity, discrimination, environmental degradation, social upheaval, joblessness, terrorism and natural disasters - all of them matters of global importance, regardless of the day-to-day attention that is, and is often not, paid them by politicians and the mainstream media.
These features are poverty and lack of human dignity, and we do not need communists or so-called "agitators" to teach us about these things.
The home environments of patients in the S group were not characterized by higher incidences of antisocial features, poverty, family disintegration, or infantile abuse than the other groups.
