"vast poverty" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant or widespread level of poverty. Example: The country was plagued by vast poverty, with nearly half of its population struggling to meet their basic needs.
But to eliminate India's vast poverty the country must try harder.
But it is a vast continent and there is still vast poverty and still millions that need some of our assistance.
The considerable left argues that the government's Western-style policies, including privatizing state industries and luring foreign investors, have hardly lessened the nation's vast poverty, which seems immune to conventional economic remedies.
Rising out of the vast poverty in the slums of Mumbai is a new upper class that has prospered from the success of their businesses in slums like Dharavi.
As well, security officials were reported to have tightened their grip on Saddam City, a vast poverty-stricken district on the outskirts of Baghdad where many of the capital's three million Shiites live.
Finally, there is the flamboyant, controversial Mayawati Kumari, whose support among those lowest in India's enduring social hierarchy of castes, has made her chief minister of the vast and poverty-stricken northern state of Uttar Pradesh four times.
A vast literature studies poverty as a dynamic process, complementing the already well-established research on poverty as a static phenomenon.
In the 19th century, even though capitalism had existed for only a short time and had just started putting a dent in precapitalisms legacy of poverty, the vast, vast majority of Americans were already able to support their own lives through their own productive work.
It maintained a rotten status quo that kept a vast majority in poverty in Latin America while favouring their rich friends.
With Asian markets currently in crisis and Asia as a whole covered by vast swathes of poverty, one centre may make sense.
Rome today continues to be a contradictory city, its historic and wealthy neighbourhoods coexisting with vast swathes of poverty in its peripheries and among its immigrant populations.
