A lack of employment alternatives means that pastoralism's importance as a livelihood strategy (usually combined with agriculture) has grown - but such livelihoods are precarious and poverty is widespread.
The report said that young people in developing economies are more vulnerable to precarious employment and poverty.
For all the misery they can engender, sweatshops at least offer a precarious escape from the poverty that is the developing world's greatest problem.
Poverty, homelessness, precarious immigration status, and mental-health issues were all invoked by the D.A.'s office as reasons to jail crime victims, who included survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, and child sex trafficking.
Many women and girls in Freetown already lived in poverty and precarious circumstances.
Clearly, beating urban poverty is a precarious project which goes far beyond simply having a roof over one's head.
Increasing this dependence will cause household energy bills to rise even further, pushing those who live the most precarious lives deeper into fuel poverty.
Ideologically driven austerity has contributed to disillusionment with democratic institutions, driving disproportionate numbers of women into poverty, unemployment and precarious, low-paid jobs.
And while self-employment may not be bad per se, in the overwhelming majority of cases it reflects the lack of alternatives, and implies precarious living conditions and working poverty.
But Eszter is experiencing education as Charlotte Brontë did: both as a precarious road out of dangerous poverty which requires ceaseless striving, and as the only possible means of self-expression.
