What is Poverty?
Its a condition of a person or a community where they lack financially, or not having enough resources for them to meet personal needs such as shelter, food and clothing.
Poverty Cycle
How to measure poverty?
The main ways of measuring poverty are:
Main problems associated with measuring poverty:
- Unemployment
- Supplemental poverty measure (this measure helps us have a better understanding of poverty and it’s work expenses, economic conditions, and medical costs.)
- Poverty line
Main problems associated with measuring poverty:
- Poverty is relative: Example, coming from a MEDC (more economically developed country) would be different as even the rich in an LEDC (less economically developed country) would seem poor in comparison to the MEDC living standards
- Living standards are different
- Culture has to be taken into consideration
- More ways in which we could measure poverty more accurately:
- One way of poverty being measured more accurately could involve the policymakers, they could improve and become more accurate.
- Another way is to consider changes to the measurements, so that the government would use things that would benefit those in need.
Information
Pettinger, T. (n.d.). Definition of absolute and relative poverty. Retrieved April 20, 2020, from
https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/glossary/definition-of-absolute-and-relative-poverty/
Chen, J. (2020, February 05). Poverty. Retrieved April 20, 2020, from https://
www.investopedia.com/terms/p/poverty.asp
Images
Project, B. (2019, October 24). Unemployment: Causes of Poverty in Oman. Retrieved April 20,
2020, from https://borgenproject.org/causes-of-poverty-in-oman/
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Effect-of-a-relative-poverty-line-on-poverty-rates_fig1_311712107
Hands Genocide Beggar Poverty. (n.d.). Retrieved April 20, 2020, from https://www.123rf.com/
photo_69860202_hands-genocide-beggar-poverty.html
Interventions of poverty
Interventions:
- the risk of inequality
- Ongoing colonization
- Lack of affordable housing : people with low income and with expensive housing cost
causes the people to risk.
- Exploitation of labour : treating a worker unfairly to benefit another
Intervention for each factor
Healthcare : alcohol use, obesity and drug, no doctors
Employment: not safe workplace and bad payment
Clean water: sickness
Governance: poor health of citizens, war and not good leaders
Education: no access to good schools and not being able to attend school due to the cost Equality: having little to no rights causing inequality and racial inequality
geography: war and no resources Infrastructure: not being able to communicate
- the risk of inequality
- Ongoing colonization
- Lack of affordable housing : people with low income and with expensive housing cost
causes the people to risk.
- Exploitation of labour : treating a worker unfairly to benefit another
Intervention for each factor
Healthcare : alcohol use, obesity and drug, no doctors
Employment: not safe workplace and bad payment
Clean water: sickness
Governance: poor health of citizens, war and not good leaders
Education: no access to good schools and not being able to attend school due to the cost Equality: having little to no rights causing inequality and racial inequality
geography: war and no resources Infrastructure: not being able to communicate
Gender and Poverty
Some videos on poverty
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