POVERTY

                                                                     



“The greatness disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy, it is being unwanted, unloved and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despari and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but thesre are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in west is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.”
MOTHER TERESA, A SIMPLE PATH: MOTHER TERESA
You migth be poor, your shoes might be broken, byt your mind is a palace.”
POVERTY IS
It is a multifaceted concept
It is a state
It is a social problem
It is an economic problem
Which includes social, economic and political. Elements. Poverty may be define as either absolute or relative. Absolute Poverty or destitution refers to the lack or means necessary to meet basic needs such as food, clothing and shelter
DEFINTION OF POVERTY
A statee or condition in which a person or community lacks the financial resources and essentials to enjoy a minimum standard of life and well-being that’s considered acceptable in society. Poverty status in the Uniteed States is assigned to people that do not meet a certain thredhold level set by the Department of Health and Human Services.
UN DEFINATION
As the total absence of opportunities, accompanied by high level of undernourishment, illiteracy, lack of education, physhical and mental ailments, emotional and social instability, unhappiness, sorrow and hopelessness for the future. Poverty is also charachterized by a chronic shortage of economics, social and political participation, relegating individuals to exclusion as social beings, preventing access to the benetfits of ecnonomics and social development and thereby limiting their cultural developmetn
The world Bank defines poverty in absolute terms.
The band define extreme poverty as living on less than US$1.25 per day ppp and moderate poverty as less then $2 a day. It has been estimated that in 2014 1.4 billion people had consumption level below US$1.25 a day and 2.7 billion lived on less than $2 a day.
Nearly a quarter of people in the world are living in absolute poverty.
Definitions of Absolute Poverty
ABSOLUTE POVERTY refers to a conditons where a person does not have the minimum amount of income needed to meet the minimum requirments for one or one or more basic living needs over an extended period of time. This includes things like: