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• n  the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
• n  the act of making someone poor

• Not only has it caused impoverishment, corruption and suffering, but military dictatorships of the right have also given rise to antidemocratic movements of the far left, which .
• The result could be a virtual genocide of much of the animal world and an irreversible impoverishment of our planet.
• A Pencil In the Hand Of God Mother Teresa sees poverty as a kind of richness -- and richness as impoverishment -- as she cares for the dying and unwanted of Calcutta.

• poverty
• poorness
• pauperization
• pauperisation

• wealth

News & Articles

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• Impoverished in city, suburbs share more than desperation in common
  The poor, the Bible says, will always be with us.But the rise of impoverishment in the suburbs is different, in a lot of ways, from the poverty long concentrated in urban areas.Research from The Brookings Institution indicates that in the suburbs:* 44 percent of the poor are white, compared to 24 pe...
  July 1, 2013 - Lancaster Online

Quotes

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• Hugh Masekela in Reuters Canada
  When you started mediating, Zimbabwe still had a functioning economy, millions of our citizens had not fled to other countries to escape political and economic crisis, and tens of thousands had not yet died from impoverishment and disease. In fact,... Morgan Tsvangirai http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Tsvangirai&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHRNUvRSKl1_LYMSQOaUXfwfvpKUw guardian.co.uk http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/02/zimbabwe.southafrica&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHlamlzsawrJUFOlJ0SkpqHaiSOgQ Jun 1, 2008 50195 67837 impoverishment We have seen the manipulation, the impoverishment of Africa ...... That is testament to the effects of slavery," South African jazz icon Hugh Masekela told a news conference. "There is no price, no price for what has been done."
• Gerald Ford in TomPaine.com (blog)
  In an eloquent New York Times op-ed Ford wrote that eliminating affirmative action at his alma mater would condemn "future college students to suffer the cultural and social impoverishment that afflicted my generation."