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Poverty, the state of being extremely poor, is of lacking sufficient monetary resources or having few possessions for a person to live at a standard considered comfortable in society (Oxford; Cambridge Dictionary). Differently addressed, by Spicker (2007), poverty is a fluctuating set of circumstances which is not a solitary condition that could be easily identifiable. Paradigm, a typical pattern of something, is symbolized by a set of interrelated principles, hypotheses, or ideologies (Oxford; Sun 2005). Paradigms of poverty lead to identifying the patterns of the state of being extremely poor in a particular society.
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“While Extreme poverty has eased considerably since 1990, pockets of the worst forms of poverty persist.” (Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere, UNDP)
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Sylva, K. (2021). Paradigms of Poverty: Concepts and Causes. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) No Poverty. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95714-2_78
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