English | Româna The Situation of Children left behind by migrating parents This study, developed within the regional UNICEF initiative on the analysis of the phenomenon of poverty and its impact on children, aimed at investigating the situation of migrants' children, as a starting point.
In particular, low income tenants face a phenomenon of energy poverty in which they allocate significantly more of their household income to energy expenditures than other renters.
Showing up for the movie The Soloist would be to experience the grueling social phenomena of inner city poverty, schizophrenia, and racism, as well as the colonialism in attitudes of giving.
It's consistent with the national phenomenon of the suburbanization of poverty".
Interestingly, this phenomenon -- mobility out of poverty accompanied by higher income concentrations and persistent inequality -- is evident in all regions of the world, with the exception of one: Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
As a kid, I always thought of poverty as a global phenomenon rather than a local reality.
In developing African countries such as Tanzania, this demographic phenomenon is taking place against a background of poverty and poor health conditions.
Sometimes metaphors can make social phenomena seem natural rather than political – for instance, in the pervasive metaphor of poverty as a disease: "the blight of poverty".
We understand, increasingly, that the so-called cycle of poverty is, at least in part, a physical phenomenon, a manifestation of stress.
"We think of poverty as a really urban or ultra-rural phenomenon," Elizabeth Kneebone, senior research associate at Brookings Institute, told CNN Money, "[B]ut it's not.
