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Cyclical Poverty
CYCLICAL POVERTY DESCRIBES poverty that is intermittent as opposed to poverty that is long-term. Actual poverty in the United States is determined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and is based on the number of adults and children in ...
- Antipoverty Organizations
- African Development Foundation
- American Friends Service Committee
- Anti-Defamation League
- Better Safer World
- Big Brothers Big Sisters
- Campus Compact
- CARE
- Center for Democratic Renewal
- Center for the Study of Urban Poverty
- Center on Budget and Policies Priorities
- Center on Hunger and Poverty
- Charity Organization Society
- Comic Relief
- Cuernavaca Center
- Development Gateway
- Employment Policies Institute
- Engineers Without Borders
- Feinstein Foundation
- Food First
- Food for the Hungry
- Food Research and Action Center
- Foods Resource Bank
- Habitat for Humanity
- Haig Fund
- Hull House
- Institute for Research on Poverty
- Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty
- Institute on Race and Poverty
- International Food Policy Research Institute
- International Labor Organization
- International Monetary Fund
- International Nongovernmental Organizations
- Lawyers Without Borders
- Médecins Sans Frontières
- National Alliance to End Homelessness
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- National Coalition for the Homeless
- National Coalition of Barrios Unidos
- National Coalition on Health Care
- National Conference for Community and Justice
- National Low-Income Housing Coalition
- National Poverty Center
- New Partnership for Africa's Development
- Nongovernmental Organizations
- Salvation Army
- Second Harvest
- Students Against Sweatshops
- UNICEF
- United For a Fair Economy
- World Bank
- World Health Organization
- World Trade Organization
- Children and Poverty
- CDF Black Community Crusade for Children
- Child Malnutrition
- Child Mortality
- Child Welfare League of America
- ChildLine
- Children and Poverty
- Children's Aid Society
- Children's Defense Fund
- Children's Hunger Relief
- Church of England
- Education
- National Association for the Education of Young Children
- National Education Association
- National Fatherhood Initiative
- Nutrition
- Street Children
- Causes of Poverty
- Countries: Africa
- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Brunei Darussalam
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Congo
- Congo, Democratic Republic
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- São Tomé and Principe
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- Sudan
- Swaziland
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- Countries: Americas
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Suriname
- Trinidad and Tobago
- United States
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Countries: Asia
- Afghanistan
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- Cambodia
- China
- East Timor
- Georgia
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Korea, North
- Korea, South
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- Philippines
- Qatar
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Seychelles
- Singapore
- Sri Lanka
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Countries: Europe
- Albania
- Andorra
- Armenia
- Austria
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macedonia (FYROM)
- Malta
- Monaco
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- San Marino
- Serbia and Montenegro
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- Countries: Pacific
- Economics of Poverty
- Agriculture
- Agriculture-Nutrition Advantage
- Area Deprivation
- Bankruptcy
- Basic Income
- Basic Needs
- Basic Security
- Capitalism
- Civil Society
- Class Analysis of Poverty
- Class Structure
- Communism
- Cost of Living
- Credit
- Debt
- Debt Relief
- Debt Swap
- Dependency School
- Deprivation
- Destitution
- Disability Insurance
- Distribution
- Drought
- Economic Distance
- Economic Growth
- Employment
- Employment Theory
- Environmental Degradation
- Equity and Efficiency Trade-Off
- Equivalence Scales
- Family Budgets
- Famine
- Financial Markets
- Fiscal Policy
- Food Shortages
- Foreign Direct Investment
- Free Trade Agreement of Americas
- Fuel Poverty
- Globalization
- Household Consumption
- Household Employment
- Household Income
- Human Capital
- Human Development
- Income
- Income Distribution Theories
- Income Inequality
- Income Poverty
- Inflation
- International Trade
- Intrahousehold Transfers
- Labor Market
- Laissez-Faire
- Lumpenproletariat
- Macroeconomic Policies
- Macroeconomics
- Market Efficiency
- Microeconomics
- Monetary Policy
- Myrdal's Theory of Cumulative Causation
- Needs
- Neoclassical Thought
- Nonincome Poverty
- North American Free Trade Agreement
- OECD Countries
- Outsourcing/Offshoring
- Pension Programs
- Physiocrats
- Planning
- Poverty Trap
- Primary Poverty
- Privatization
- Public Goods
- Public Policy
- Recession
- Redistribution
- Relative Deprivation
- Rural Deprivation
- Scarcity
- Social Democracy
- Socialism
- Stabilization
- Structural Dependency
- Structuralist School
- Supply-Side Economics
- Wage Slavery
- Wages
- War and Poverty
- Water
- Welfare State
- Effects of Poverty
- Crime
- Deprivation
- Destitution
- Disease
- Economic Distance
- Economic Insecurity
- Environmental Degradation
- Exclusion
- Exploitation
- Family Desertion
- HIV/AIDS
- Homelessness
- Malnutrition
- Nonworking Poor
- Rural Deprivation
- Social Disqualification
- Social Exclusion
- Social Inequality
- Social Insecurity
- Starvation
- Stigmatization
- Structural Dependency
- Underclass
- Vulnerability
- Welfare Dependence
- History of Poverty
- Adams, John (Administration)
- Adams, John Quincy (Administration)
- Almshouses
- Ancient Thought
- Apartheid
- Arthur, Chester (Administration)
- Buchanan, James (Administration)
- Bush, George H.W. (Administration)
- Bush, George W. (Administration)
- Carter, James (Administration)
- Cleveland, Grover (Administration)
- Clinton, William (Administration)
- Cold War
- Colonialism
- Coolidge, Calvin (Administration)
- Depression, Great
- Eisenhower, Dwight (Administration)
- Fabian Society
- Feudalism
- Fillmore, Millard (Administration)
- Ford, Gerald (Administration)
- French Revolution
- Garfield, James (Administration)
- Grant, Ulysses (Administration)
- Harding, Warren (Administration)
- Harrison, Benjamin (Administration)
- Harrison, William (Administration)
- Hayes, Rutherford (Administration)
- Hoover, Herbert (Administration)
- Imperialism
- Industrial Revolution
- Industrialization
- Irish Famine
- Jackson, Andrew (Administration)
- Jefferson, Thomas (Administration)
- Johnson, Andrew (Administration)
- Johnson, Lyndon (Administration)
- Kennedy, John F. (Administration)
- Les Misérables
- Lincoln, Abraham (Administration)
- Madison, James (Administration)
- McKinley, William (Administration)
- Medieval Thought
- Mercantilism
- Monroe, James (Administration)
- Nixon, Richard (Administration)
- Pierce, Franklin (Administration)
- Polk, James (Administration)
- Poor Laws
- Reagan, Ronald (Administration)
- Roosevelt, Franklin (Administration)
- Roosevelt, Theodore (Administration)
- Taft, William Howard (Administration)
- Taylor, Zachary (Administration)
- Truman, Harry (Administration)
- Tyler, John (Administration)
- Utopian Socialists
- Van Buren, Martin (Administration)
- War on Poverty
- Washington, George (Administration)
- Wilson, Woodrow (Administration)
- World War I
- World War II
- Measurements and Definitions of Poverty
- Absolute-Income-Based Measures of Poverty
- Arab Definition of Poverty
- Australian Definition of Poverty
- Axiom of Monotonicity and Axiom of Transfers
- Beveridge Scheme
- Brazilian Definition of Poverty
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Capability Measure of Poverty
- Chinese Definition of Poverty
- Comparative Research Program on Poverty
- Consumption-Based Measures of Poverty
- Contextual Poverty
- Cost-of-Living-Based Measures of Poverty
- Cyclical Poverty
- Decomposable Poverty Measures
- Definitions of Poverty
- Demographics
- Dependency Ratio
- Deprivation Index
- Direct and Indirect Measures of Poverty
- Duration of Poverty
- Economic Definitions of Poverty
- Economic Insufficiency
- Endemic Poverty
- Engel Coefficient
- European Relative-Income Standard of Poverty
- European Union Definition of Poverty
- Extended Poverty Minimum
- Extreme Poverty
- Food-Ratio Poverty Line
- Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke Index
- Gini Coefficient
- Headcount Index
- Human Poverty Index
- Indicators of Poverty
- Joint Center for Poverty Research
- Living-Standards Measurement Study
- Luxembourg Employment Study
- Luxembourg Income Study
- Mapping Poverty
- Means-Testing
- National Research Council
- Normative Standards
- Overall Poverty
- Peripheral Poverty
- Permanent (Collective) Poverty
- Poverty Assessment
- Poverty Clock
- Poverty Gap
- Poverty Gap Index
- Poverty Rate
- Poverty Research
- Poverty Threshold
- Relative Welfare Index
- Relative-Income-Based Measures of Poverty
- Rural Poverty Research Center
- Scientific Definitions of Poverty
- Secondary Poverty
- Sen Index
- Sen-Shorrocks-Thon Index
- Speenhamland System
- Squared Poverty Gap Index
- Standard Food Basket
- Standard Food Basket Variant
- Standard of Living
- Subjective Measures of Poverty
- TIP Curves
- Totally Fuzzy and Relative (TFR) Poverty Measures
- Traumatic Poverty
- UBN-PL Method
- Ultimate Poverty
- University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research
- USDA Poverty Line
- Voluntary Poverty
- Working Poor
- World Bank Poverty Lines
- People
- Aquinas, Thomas
- Bellamy, Edward
- Black, Hugo L.
- Brandeis, Louis D.
- Bryan, William Jennings
- Calvin, John
- Carnegie, Andrew
- Coughlin, Charles
- de Soto, Hernando
- Donnelly, Ignatius
- Engels, Friedrich
- Evans, George Henry
- Foucault, Michel
- Francis of Assisi
- Frank, Andre Gunder
- Franklin, Benjamin
- Friedman, Milton
- Galbraith, John Kenneth
- Gandhi, Mahatma
- George, Henry
- Giddens, Anthony
- Gilder, George
- Greeley, Horace
- Harrington, Michael
- Heilbronner, Robert
- Hobbes, Thomas
- Hobson, John
- Lewis, Arthur
- Locke, John
- Luxemburg, Rosa
- Malthus, Thomas
- Marshall, Alfred
- Marx, Karl
- Mill, John Stuart
- Mother Teresa
- Owen, Robert
- Polanyi, Karl
- Prebisch, Raul
- Rawls, John
- Ricardo, David
- Sen, Amartya
- Smith, Adam
- Thompson, T. Phillips
- Wallerstein, Immanuel
- Weber, Max
- Politics and Poverty
- Poverty Relief Initiatives
- Access-to-Enterprise Zones
- Adjustment Programs
- Aid to Families with Dependent Children
- Asset-Based Antipoverty Programs
- Congressional Hunger Center
- Earned-Income Tax Credit
- Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy
- Federal Targeted Training
- Food Stamps
- G-8 Africa Action Plan
- Great Society Programs
- Guaranteed Assistance
- Head Start
- Heifer Project
- Help the Aged
- Housing Assistance
- Inter-American Development Bank
- International Development Cooperation Forum
- Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
- Living Wage Campaign
- Low-Income Cut-Offs
- Means-Tested Government Antipoverty Programs
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Microcredit
- Millennium Development Goals
- Minimum Wage
- Pro-Poor Growth
- Rationing
- Regulation
- Rural Antipoverty Programs
- Social Assistance
- Supplemental Security Income
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
- UNDP Regional Project for Overcoming Poverty
- Unemployment Insurance
- United Nations Development Program
- Urban Antipoverty Programs
- Wealth Tax
- Workers' Compensation
- Workfare
- Work-Welfare Programs
- Religious and Secular Charities
- Africa Faith and Justice Network
- Brotherhood of St. Laurence
- Catholic Campaign for Human Development
- Christian Antipoverty Campaigns
- Christian Community Health Fellowship
- Christmas Seals
- Church World Services
- Community-Based Antipoverty Programs
- Damascus Road
- Easter Seals
- Evangelicals for Social Action
- Faith-Based Antipoverty Programs
- Franciscan Order
- Goodwill Industries
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
- Jesuits
- Jubilee 2000
- Judaism and Poverty
- Living Waters for the World
- March of Dimes
- Mendicant Orders
- Milwaukee New Hope Program
- Missionaries
- National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice
- OXFAM
- Partnership to Cut Hunger in Africa
- Polish Humanitarian Organization
- Presbyterian Hunger Project
- Protestant Churches
- Rebuilding Together
- Roy Wilkins Center
- Samaritans
- Save the Children
- Share Our Strength
- Society of St. Vincent de Paul
- United Methodist Church Initiatives
- United Methodist Committee on Relief
- United Way
- World Concern
- World Food Program
- YMCA and YWCA
- Women and Poverty
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