It could serve as a guide to those who want to help poor countries escape the poverty trap.
Two, the poverty trap is also a severe marriage penalty, making it virtually economically impossible for lower income classes to marry.
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.
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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Others suspect a poverty trap in the making, with people stuck with low skills in low-wage jobs.
"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.
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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"For the individual, it's sort of a poverty trap, " he said.
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.
That may be because the combination of low wages, expensive housing and state benefits create a poverty trap that discourages people from working.
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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