• It's a "poverty trap" that works just like the severe marriage penalties for the lower-income classes.

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  • Others suspect a poverty trap in the making, with people stuck with low skills in low-wage jobs.

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  • It could serve as a guide to those who want to help poor countries escape the poverty trap.

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  • People sometimes think they are in a poverty trap when they are not.

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  • Two, the poverty trap is also a severe marriage penalty, making it virtually economically impossible for lower income classes to marry.

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  • That may be because the combination of low wages, expensive housing and state benefits create a poverty trap that discourages people from working.

    ECONOMIST: Immigrants

  • "For the individual, it's sort of a poverty trap, " he said.

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  • The flip-side to the poverty trap, however, is that the gains of development tend to be sustained, once countries break through to sufficient levels of income, health and literacy.

    ECONOMIST: By invitation

  • One consequence of Haiti's poverty trap is that 84% of Haitians with more than a secondary education lived abroad in 2000, according to a study cited by the World Bank.

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  • By training young people who grew up as orphans, or come from impoverished villages and providing them with well-paid IT jobs DDD gives them with a way out of the poverty trap.

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  • But unless the government shows a greater ability and willingness to tackle its problems, the south will not just remain stuck in its poverty trap but risks handicapping the country as a whole.

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  • The report suggests that the sustainability of coral reefs will depend in large part on whether developing countries can improve their well-being without falling into a poverty trap -- a situation when communities are forced to degrade the very resources they rely on because of a lack of alternatives for making ends meet.

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  • Too many teenagers in England leave care without enough support, ending up in a "trap of poverty and joblessness", the children's minister has said.

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  • Because defending benefits that trap people in poverty and penalise work is defending the indefensible.

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  • "The principle of Universal Credit is sound but our research has found the actual roll-out could unintentionally trap people in poverty and hardship, " the organisation's chief executive Julia Unwin said.

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  • One well-known Democratic strategist, speaking sensibly off the record and deeply disappointed first by the Lewinsky saga and now by the all-too-plausible charge that Bill Clinton raped a certain Juanita Broaddrick some 21 years ago, sees only a Pyrrhic victory ahead: a protectionist-inclined Democratic Party with outdated regulatory instincts that will trap minorities in poverty.

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  • But this democracy needs to be modern, vibrant, a democracy that works with technology, with investment, one that does not fall into the trap of protectionism -- protectionism which can only lead to poverty.

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  • The only way out of the Development Trap, and the only route to sustainable development and an end to pervasive energy poverty is to make clean energy cheap.

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