what is poverty ?

Question

definition of poverty

Answer 1

Poverty is hunger. Poverty is lack of shelter. Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is not having access to school and not knowing how to read. Poverty is not having a job, is fear for the future, living one day at a time. Poverty is losing a child to illness brought about by unclean water. Poverty is powerlessness, lack of representation and freedom.

Poverty has many faces, changing from place to place and across time, and has been described in many ways.

"The World Bank’s 2000 World Development Report defines poverty as an unacceptable deprivation in human well-being that can comprise both physiological and social deprivation."

Answer 2

The American Heritage Dictionary says:

pov·er·ty n.

1. The state of being poor; lack of the means of providing material needs or comforts.
2. Deficiency in amount; scantiness: “the poverty of feeling that reduced her soul” (Scott Turow).
3. Unproductiveness; infertility: the poverty of the soil.
4. Renunciation made by a member of a religious order of the right to own property.

Answer 3

Poverty is most commonly defined by economic standards, based on income levels and access to basic human necessities, such as food, water, and shelter. Poverty is often described with a scale, ranging from extreme to moderate levels. The internationally agreed-upon measurement of extreme poverty currently lies at $1.25 a day, with the next lowest measure of poverty standing at $2 per day. This article does a really good job explaining it!

Answer 4

walk into the earthquake ravaged sections of pakistan which were neglected due to people donating to more highly televised events such as Katrina and the Indonesian Tsunami.
Walk around Ethiopia where a drop of water which you might carelessly spill down the drain might be the last drop of water for the next few days.
or Palestine where people are not only barraged by poverty but also by the bullets of those who wish that the palestinians did not even have what meager possessions they retain.
thats poverty

Answer 5

Poverty

1. The state of being poor; lack of the means of providing material needs or comforts.

2. Deficiency in amount; scantiness: “the poverty of feeling that reduced her soul” (Scott Turow).

3. Unproductiveness; infertility: the poverty of the soil.

4. Renunciation made by a member of a religious order of the right to own property

Answer 6

Poverty is being unable to fully met your needs or your family needs. It's the lacking of medical care, sufficient housing or necessary food and education. Poverty is lacking money to pay bills, buy clothing or for transportation.

Answer 7

Those who live in conditions of poverty lack a wide range of economic and other resources and may be described as poor or impoverished. Some see the term as subjective and comparative, others see it as moral and evaluative, while others consider that it is scientifically established.

Answer 8

poverty |ˈpävərtē| noun the state of being extremely poor : thousands of families are living in abject poverty. • the state of being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount : the poverty of her imagination. • the renunciation of the right to individual ownership of property as part of a religious vow. ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French poverte, from Latin paupertas, from pauper ‘poor.’

Answer 9

My defination:

Being too poor to properly care for yourself or your family.

Of course, there are levels of poverty so poor that they pale to what I would consider as "poverty"

My friend has trouble keeping a job, relies on food stamps for food, and had to allow others to care for one of his kids as he could not do so himself. That's poverty.

There are people who are literally living in a cardboard box and starving to death. That's well below what I consider to be poverty.

So, I guess I'll just put out there "bottom 10%". In our society, that's not good. In other societies, that's on the verge of death.

Answer 10

# The state of being poor; lack of the means of providing material needs or comforts. Definition is simple but the reality is too hard to even comprehend. I wouldn't wish that even on a worst enemy.