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the indigence
noun
Extreme poverty or destitution
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Despite the competition from other art media, and the agonies and the indigence, there are indications that the serious novel will flourish in the future.
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When these parents contemplate their children's sorry educational and vocational opportunities and the stifling indigence that predictably lies in their future, parent education and counseling seem an absurd distraction.
Also, the United Nations Development Programme considers that indigence corresponds to extreme poverty [ 28], that is, 9% of the population of Burkina Faso [ 22].
I myself think that this indigence was the cause of some of his less admirable journalism: he had to cudgel phony opinions out of his weakening brain and frame in order to finance the next bender.
Effective indigent selection is essential to ensure those who really meet the definition of indigence benefit from the program intended for them.
Müller's hurdy-gurdy player, then, must have seemed particularly appealing to a composer and musician living on the threshold of modernity, all too conscious of the dangers of falling into the terrifying state of indigence that the old man represents.
In the West, the welfare state rescued the elderly from indigence.
One of the few NGOs interested in the issue of indigence in Africa [ 77], funded by UNICEF at the time, abandoned this issue.
We have little knowledge in the African context, where much of the economy is informal, of the criteria used to determine indigence and of the processes that can help identify the indigent.
Given the high likelihood of indigence among the mentally ill offender population, it is possible that court-based programs could be more effective if specially trained legal counsel were part of a broader program of support, however it is not clear that even attorneys trained in mental health issues have the skill or time to engage in adequate case management for their clients.
Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto has argued that the secret to loosening the bonds of indigence lies in private ownership.
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