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…showed last 75 words of 957 total…female poverty and development across a number of variables. Conceptions of poverty are held by individuals and groups and these are institutionalised by the state. A large amount of individuals believe that poverty is a standard of living below a minimally defined level. Gellner wrote that poverty is an essentially contested concept. Poverty has many meanings and because of this definitions, measurement and explanations of poverty have much controversy and debate within the sociological analysis.