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Poverty Alleviation Campaign
The Poverty Alleviation Campaign (脱贫攻坚战) was a targeted poverty reduction program of the People's Republic of China, credited with lifting about 80 million rural poor out of poverty.
Poverty in China
Poverty in China, measured by an official rural income line, fell from 765 million people in 1980 to 6 million in 2019, before the government declared absolute poverty eliminated in 2021.
Poverty in India
Poverty in India, also called Indian poverty, is measured against national and World Bank poverty lines; recent estimates range from 34 million to 363 million poor.
Poverty in the Philippines
Poverty in the Philippines is measured by the Philippine Statistics Authority through province-specific income thresholds; the official poverty rate fell to 9.7 percent in 2025, a record low, though regional gaps remain wide.
Poverty in the United Kingdom
Poverty in the United Kingdom, also called poverty in the UK, is measured as income below 60% of the median; 13.4 million people were poor after housing costs in 2024/25.
Poverty in the United States
Poverty in the United States is measured against official dollar thresholds set in the 1960s; in 2025, 10.2 percent of Americans, about 34.5 million people, lived below the poverty line.
Poverty of speech
Poverty of speech (alogia, ICD-11 MB23.K) is a negative symptom of schizophrenia: reduced spontaneous speech or content, distinguished from aphasia and mutism, rated by SANS and measurable by speech analysis.
Poverty Point
Poverty Point, a Late Archaic monumental earthwork complex in northeastern Louisiana (1700–1100 BCE), built by hunter-fisher-gatherers: six concentric ridges, large mounds including Mound A, vast trade network, UNESCO World Heritage site since 2014.
Poverty porn
Poverty porn, also called development or famine porn, is media exploiting poor people's condition to elicit sympathy and donations. Coined in 1981 NGO criticism, popularized around Slumdog Millionaire (2008); now discouraged by ethics guidelines and reappearing as AI-generated imagery.
Poverty reduction
Poverty reduction, also called poverty alleviation, is the sustained lowering of the share of people living below a poverty line, such as the World Bank's $3.00 a day.
Poverty threshold
The poverty threshold, also called the poverty line, is the income level below which a person or family is counted as poor, used for statistics and benefit eligibility.
Povidone-iodine
Povidone-iodine (PVP-I, Betadine) is a water-soluble iodophor antiseptic complexing iodine with polyvinylpyrrolidone, introduced in the 1950s; broadest antimicrobial spectrum among common antiseptics, no observed resistance, used in surgical skin prep and ophthalmic antisepsis.
Povilas Plechavičius
Povilas Plechavičius (1890–1973) was a Lithuanian general who organized Samogitian partisans in the war of independence, took part in the 1926 coup, and commanded the Territorial Defense Force in 1944.
Povkhovskoye Oil Field
The Povkhovskoye Oil Field (Повховское) is a large, mature onshore oil field near Kogalym in Western Siberia, Russia, discovered in 1972 and operated by LUKOIL subsidiary TPP Povkhneftegaz.
Povl Ole Fanger
Povl Ole Fanger (1934–2006) was a Danish scientist at the Technical University of Denmark known for the PMV thermal comfort model and the olf and decipol units.
POVM
A POVM, or positive operator-valued measure, is a mathematical description of a quantum measurement as a collection of non-negative operators, called effects, whose outcome probabilities follow the Born rule; projective measurements are a special case.
Povorcitinib
Povorcitinib (INCB054707, Povofortay) is Incyte's oral, highly selective JAK1 inhibitor (about 50-fold over JAK2) with positive phase 3 results and regulatory filings for hidradenitis suppurativa and vitiligo.
Powada
Powada (पोवाडा) is a Marathi ballad genre sung by shahirs, or bards, that narrates the deeds of heroes and public events; it took shape in the age of Shivaji and is still performed.
Powaqqatsi
Powaqqatsi (1988) is Godfrey Reggio's wordless documentary, second in the Qatsi trilogy, with a Philip Glass score, filmed in twelve countries on Third World labor and transformation.
Powassan virus
Powassan virus (POWV), also called deer tick virus for lineage II, is a tick-borne flavivirus first identified in Powassan, Ontario, in 1958. Spread by Ixodes ticks in as little as 15 minutes, it causes encephalitis with about 10% case fatality, no vaccine, and rising US cases.
Poway, California
Poway, California: "City in the Country," a city in northeast San Diego County incorporated December 1980, population about 49,000, over half its 39.4 square miles preserved open space, served by Poway Unified School District.
Powder
A powder is a dry bulk solid of many fine particles whose collective behavior is governed by interparticle forces, handled at scale in pharmaceutical, food, chemical, and mining industries.
Powder (1995 film)
Powder is a 1995 American sci-fi drama written and directed by Victor Salva, released October 27, 1995 by Hollywood Pictures/Caravan Pictures, starring Sean Patrick Flanery as an albino telepathic teen, with Steenburgen, Goldblum, Henriksen; overshadowed by Salva's molestation conviction.
Powder (musician)
Powder is a Japanese DJ and producer based in Tokyo who emerged in 2015 and became one of the most in-demand selectors on the international house circuit.
Powder Blue (film)
Powder Blue is a 2009 American ensemble drama directed, written, and produced by Timothy Linh Bui from a story by Stephane Gauger, starring Jessica Biel, Eddie Redmayne, Forest Whitaker, and Ray Liotta as four strangers whose lives intersect in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve; it was a critical and commercial failure and Patrick Swayze's final feature role.
Powder coating
Powder coating is a finishing process in which dry polymer powder is applied electrostatically and heated to melt into a protective, decorative film that releases almost no VOCs.
Powder diffraction
Powder diffraction is an analytical technique in which X-rays or neutrons directed at a crystalline powder identify phases, determine unit cells, and refine crystal structures.
Powder injection molding
Powder injection molding (PIM) is a manufacturing process that mixes fine metal or ceramic powder with a polymer binder, injection molds the feedstock, and sinters the part to near-full density.
Powder metallurgy
Powder metallurgy, or powdered metal (PM), is a metal-forming process in which metal powders are pressed into a die and sintered just below their melting point into solid parts.
Powder River Basin
The Powder River Basin is a structural basin in northeastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana, holding the largest low-sulfur subbituminous coal resources in the United States.