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Weaponizing Poverty is a concept first made popular by researchers like Bruce Levinson. The expression is used to describe policies that use a low income population segment’s economic status as the fulcrum in an attempt to alter behavior. Bruce Levinson in his "Weaponizing Poverty " argues that such policies can and do backfire. The same expression has been used in a similar context as Weaponisation of Poverty by analysts like Anthony Kila to explain situations in developing countries like Nigeria where politicians leverage on voters poverty and need for money to induce them into vote buying. The term has also been used to qualify the process by which religious leaders exert money from their followers by radio broadcaster Daddy Frezze.