"state on the edge of the Sahara, which has faced massive population growth, pervasive poverty, food insecurity and instability for decades."

The result, argued Underhill, was a pervasive poverty in Canadian political culture.

Enormous disparities in wealth and income exacerbate the resentments generated by the pervasive poverty of the Philippines.

The county suffers from pervasive poverty.

In the theater district, staging serves a practical function by obscuring a pervasive poverty of musical imagination.

This trend made it easier for me to cope with the country's socio-political ills, including its pervasive poverty.

Continuing pervasive poverty makes many Romanians uneasy about freedom.

It's one of the few ways for people of limited means to escape Brazil's pervasive poverty.

They arise from interfactional fighting between warlords and from drug-related crime and pervasive poverty.

Throughout Yugoslavia, Pristina, the provincial capital, is regarded as a town of architectural megalomania amid pervasive poverty.