Died after having been born in poverty (4)
I believe the answer is:
need
'poverty' is the definition.
(need is a kind of poverty)
'died after having been born in' is the wordplay.
'died' becomes 'd'.
'after having' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'been' becomes 'e' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'born' becomes 'ne' ('born' in French - used to indicate a birth name).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'e' put inside 'ne' is 'nee'.
'd' after 'nee' is 'NEED'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for need that I've seen before include "destitute state" , "Exigency" , "Desideratum" , "Necessitate" , "Necessity" .)