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'lack of livelihood' is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use this phrase to refer to a lack of ability to support oneself financially or to make an income. For example, "The pandemic has caused a lack of livelihood for many people in the small town."
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"Poverty and lack of livelihood are the reasons why these people come to Manila.
"Young people in Tanzania face various issues like youth unemployment, poor education systems, lack of livelihood or entrepreneurial skills, lack of capital.
Stigma and social exclusion can lead to a lack of livelihood and an inability to access education and health care, meaning people affected by leprosy and disability are among the poorest of the poor.
Nonclimatic factors such as globalization, earthquakes, injustice, lack of livelihood opportunities, overexploitation of resources, and epidemics converge to mostly affect people with limited access to resources for dealing with climate change-related challenges.
Article 25 lid 1 reads: "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control" [66].
Furthermore, the multiple livelihood practices of Soqotrans, and thus their lack of livelihood specialization, problematize the standard definition of who are pastoralists: 'populations for which livestock-related activities are the sources of more than half of total household income' (Swift and Toulmin [1992]).
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Or were programmes improveing the situations of the poorest people the best way to go? David Bull from Unicef said his organisation considers the lack of livelihoods for young people one of the world's most significant challenges.
Diagram 1 shows that although the two types of migrations are motivated by the (lack of) livelihoods opportunities, the latter leads to a permanent, often definitive change of environment, while the former exposes to health risks at both origin and destination (hence boxes placed on the border of rural and urban areas).
With the material and political change stemming from the ceasefire agreement of 1991 and, given the lack of alternative livelihood pathways in the desert environment, many refugees pursued camel husbandry as a path towards food security and livelihood diversification.
Moreover, our findings about the structural factors underlying local people's acceptance of 'productive alliances' resonate with other studies showing that 'long histories of government neglect and a lack of alternative livelihood possibilities' are at the basis of local people acquiescence to incorporation even on unfavourable terms [83, 84].
One year after the storm, basic necessities such as food, potable water, and shelter remained insufficient for many, a situation exacerbated by lack of support to help rebuild livelihoods and worsening household debt.
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