'indigence' is a perfectly correct and usable word in written English.
Generally, 'indigence' is used to refer to a state of poverty; it is an unimaginably poor state of financial circumstances. Example Sentence: The woman was living in abject indigence, and desperately needed money to pay for food.
Poverty and indigence statistics, which are calculated using the affordability of a basket of basic goods, are due to be announced in April.
But not all of them savour the alternative ending for their cold war: rapprochement and reunification.North Korea's indigence is almost as scary as its belligerence.
But if it calculated poverty and indigence lines using its new inflation data, reported poverty would spike and the government's image as a champion of the poor would take a battering.
We have lowered poverty and indigence considerably and increased employment.
The poverty and indigence statistics, for example, are linked to official estimates of inflation.
According to one scholar, French allowed Beckett to explore "ignorance, impotence and indigence", freed from the weight of literary allusions and cleverness which characterised his 1930s English writings.But Beckett translated nearly all his work from French into English himself (and also from English into French).
They provide 10 euros a month each to about 1,000 of the neediest, like Ms Lesnichenko, "just enough to get them out of indigence".
One would think that liberals would be in favour of this; it would take away the most common method for dodging child support, which is claiming indigence.
Until January INDEC announced the value of the basic-goods baskets it uses to calculate poverty and indigence every month.
In the West, the welfare state rescued the elderly from indigence.
