Effective poverty due to insufficiency of means rather than waste, inefficiency, or some other drain on resources.
〔经济〕（因缺乏资源财富而非因浪费、低效或其他资源流失而引起的）原始贫困
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For example, household expenditure data suggest that Rowntree overestimated the food needs of children in his 1899 study of poverty in York, and therefore overestimated the share of the population living in primary poverty.
In primary poverty were those whose total income was not enough to ‘obtain the minimum necessities of life for mere physical efficiency.’
Rowntree concluded that 9.91 per cent of York's population were living in primary poverty and 17.93 in secondary poverty.