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The answer PENURY has 39 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of penury in various dictionaries:
noun - a state of extreme poverty or destitution
Extreme want or poverty; destitution.
Extreme dearth; barrenness or insufficiency.
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| the state of being very poor extreme poverty. |
| a state of extreme poverty or destitution |
| the state of being extremely poor |
| Extreme want or poverty destitution. |
| Extreme dearth barrenness or insufficiency. |
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| Extreme poverty, abject poverty, absolute poverty, destitution, or penury, was originally defined by the United Nations in 1995 as "a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. It depends not only on income but also on access to services." In 2018, "extreme poverty" widely refers to earning below the international poverty line of $1.90/day (in 2011 prices, equivalent to $2.07 in 2017), set by the World Bank. This measure is the equivalent to earning $1.00 a day in 1996 US prices, hence the widely used expression, living on "less than a dollar a day". The vast majority of those in extreme poverty 96% reside in South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, The West Indies, East Asia and the Pacific; nearly half live in India and China alone.. As of 25th June 2018, Nigeria became the poverty capital of the world with more than 86 million of its citizens living in extreme p |
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| DESTITUTION |
| INDIGENCE |
| NEED |
| NEEDINESS |
| WANT |