varfëri

varfëri

According to the government, any individual or household that spends more than one-third of their after-tax income on food.

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kulturë varfërie

Sociology; General sociology

A theory associated with victim-blame that holds that individuals and groups in poverty are responsible for their own plight and maintains that the central problem is that years ...

varfëri absolute

Sociology; General sociology

A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.

varfëri relative

Sociology; General sociology

A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society, whatever their lifestyles, are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.

varfëri absolute

Culture; Social media

Also known as subsistence poverty, this is an idea of poverty derived from the minimum requirements for subsistence: what a person must have to live and to make a living.