It's a "poverty trap" that works just like the severe marriage penalties for the lower-income classes.
Others suspect a poverty trap in the making, with people stuck with low skills in low-wage jobs.
It could serve as a guide to those who want to help poor countries escape the poverty trap.
People sometimes think they are in a poverty trap when they are not.
Two, the poverty trap is also a severe marriage penalty, making it virtually economically impossible for lower income classes to marry.
That may be because the combination of low wages, expensive housing and state benefits create a poverty trap that discourages people from working.
"For the individual, it's sort of a poverty trap, " he said.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Because defending benefits that trap people in poverty and penalise work is defending the indefensible.
"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.
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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