The cycle of poverty

A) is of little consequence in core countries.
B) results in the middle class dropping down into poverty.
C) transmits poverty from one generation to the next.
D) occurs primarily in rural areas of peripheral countries.
E) is found only in the periphery.


Answer: C

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