Sentence examples for point of poverty from inspiring English sources

Kravinsky discusses the idea of giving away everything-to the point of poverty.

If her grades were preventing all the other kids from succeeding, to the point of poverty, then yes some of her grades should be given to the other students.

For classification of income levels, the Malaysia's cut-off point of poverty line in the year 2009 (i.e. MYR786) was considered and adjusted for inflation rate and living expenses of metropolitan Kuala Lumpur [ 44].

Thus, redistribution was responsible for 0.56 percentage points of poverty reduction.

We, therefore, calculate point estimates of per-capita income of the households in the synthetic-panel as follows:11Recently, Dang and Lanjouw (2013) have developed a point estimate synthetic panel approach, which generalizes the use of non-parametric and parametric methods to produce point estimates of poverty transitions.

Research tells us that many Americans will endure a period of poverty at some point in their lives, either as adults or as children.

Where's the logic in that?" In other words, what's the point of a poverty line that counts most people as poor?

South Korea, from a starting point of great poverty, has deliberately invested in education as a route to becoming a modern industrial power.

In 2010 some  improvement of the situation with relative poverty was observed: the level of poverty has decreased by 2.3 percentage points – from 26.4% to 24.1%; the level of extreme poverty also decreased by 2,2%% (from 13.0% to 11.2%).

As in Chicago and other cities suffering from endemic violence, the roots of local gang culture are complex, but locals point to poverty as one of the chief factors.

So it was a surprise, barely a day after images of bloodied commuters flooded Russian airwaves, when Mr. Medvedev made a point of publicly discussing poverty and unemployment in the North Caucasus, which he has said are the root causes of violence there.