She read in the Times that the Census Bureau had found Reading to be the poorest American city of its size, with a poverty rate of more than forty per cent.
Table 5 presents the descriptive analysis of the impact of adoption of improved cassava varieties on annual income from cassava production, income from other crops, total agricultural expenditure, per capita consumption expenditure, average farm size and the incidence of poverty among the farmers.
The main difference between those in poverty and those not is the size of the outer circle; poverty means fewer resources.
"Outsized" fines and penalties for past misconduct "are not proportionate to our smaller size", grumbled McFarlane, a plea of poverty that jars with the fact that Barclays still managed to dig deep and pay 323 employees more than £1m last year.
Farm size and yield are measures of poverty and risk, while the increase in Bt area is a surrogate for high costs of Bt technology adoption and continued use of insecticide.
However, what the barber will tell anyone who asks is that the sheer size of the population, overwhelming poverty, failing infrastructure and weak government mean Pakistan is a hard country to survive for the young.
On the other hand the focus group findings also point towards several structural barriers to increasing PA such as the geographic size of McDowell County relevant to population size, as well as high rates of poverty and a large proportion of families where grandparents are raising children.
There is a definite link between economic factors and farmer-suicide, according to Gutierrez et al. They demonstrated that farm size and yield - the yardsticks of poverty and risk - as well as the acreage cultivated, and persistent insecticide application, are the true culprits.
Cooperatives use the platform to identify farmers who will never earn enough profits to move out of poverty because the size of land is too small to support their family.
So despite the fact that more than a third of India's Muslims live in cities and towns - making them the most urbanised community of a significant size - poverty and discrimination continues to easily push them into ghettos.
He stresses that there isn't a one-size-fits-all solution to the suburbanisation of poverty, wherever it is.
