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PovertyFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An example of urban poverty in thissluminJakarta, Indonesia
Poverty is the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money.[1]Absolute
povertyordestitution refers to the deprivation ofbasic human needs, which commonly includes food,water,
sanitation, clothing, shelter, health care and education. Relative poverty is defined contextually aseconomic
inequalityin the location or society in which people live
For much of history, poverty was considered largely unavoidable as traditional modes of production were
insufficient to give an entire population a comfortable standard of living.[1][4]After theindustrial revolution,mass
productionin factories made wealth increasingly more inexpensive and accessible. Of more importance is the
modernization ofagriculture, such asfertilizers, in order to provide enough yield to feed the population.[5]The
supply of basic needs can be restricted by constraints on government services such as corruption,illicit capital
flight,debtandloan conditionalitiesand by thebrain drainof health care and educational professionals.
Strategies of increasing income to make basic needs more affordable typically include welfare, economic
freedom, and providing financial services.
Poverty reductionis a major goal and issue for many international organizations such as the United Nations
and theWorld Bank. The World Bank estimated 1.29 billion people were living in absolute poverty in 2008. Of
these, about 400 million people in absolute poverty lived in India and 173 million people in China. In terms of
percentage of regional populations,sub-Saharan Africaat 47% had the highest incidence rate of absolute
poverty in 2008. Between 1990 and 2010, about 663 million people moved above the absolute poverty level.
Still, extreme poverty is a global challenge; it is observed in all parts of the world, including the developed
economies.
Measuring poverty
See also:List of countries by percentage of population living in povertyandPoverty threshold
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Definitions
Percentage of population living on less than $1.25 per day. UN estimates 20002006.
Percentage of population suffering from hunger,World Food Programme, 2006
Life expectancy.
TheHuman Development Index.
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TheGini coefficient, a measure ofincome inequality.
United Nations: Fundamentally, poverty is a denial of choices and opportunities, a violation of human dignity. It
means lack of basic capacity to participate effectively in society. It means not having enough to feed and cloth
a family, not having a school or clinic to go to, not having the land on which to grow ones food or a job to earn
ones living, not having access to credit. It means insecurity, powerlessness and exclusion of individuals,
households and communities. It means susceptibility to violence, and it often implies living in marginal or fragile
environments, without access to clean water or sanitation.
World Bank: Poverty is pronounced deprivation in well-being, and comprises many dimensions. It includes low
incomes and the inability to acquire the basic goods and services necessary for survival with dignity. Poverty
also encompasses low levels of health and education, poor access to clean water and sanitation, inadequate
physical security, lack of voice, and insufficient capacity and opportunity to better ones life.
Copenhagen Declaration: Absolute poverty is a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human
needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. It
depends not only on income but also on access to social services. The term 'absolute poverty' is sometimessynonymously referred to as 'extreme poverty.'
Absolute poverty
Poverty is usually measured as eitherabsoluteorrelative(the latter being actually an index of income
inequality). Absolute poverty refers to a set standard which is consistent over time and between countries.
For a few years starting 1990, The World Bank anchored absolute poverty line as $1 per day. This was revised
in 1993, and through 2005, absolute poverty was $1.08 a day for all countries on apurchasing power
paritybasis, after adjusting for inflation to the 1993 U.S. dollar. In 2005, after extensive studies of cost of living
across the world, The World Bank raised the measure for global poverty line to reflect the observed higher cost
of living. Now, theWorld Bankdefinesextreme povertyas living on less than US$1.25 (PPP) per day,
and moderate poverty as less than $2 or $5 a day (but note that a person or family with access to subsistence
resources, e.g.subsistence farmers, may have a low cash income without a correspondingly low standard of
living they are not living "on" their cash income but using it as a top up). It estimates that "in 2001, 1.1 billion
people had consumption levels below $1 a day and 2.7 billion lived on less than $2 a day." A dollar a day, in
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nations that do not use the U.S. dollar as currency, does not translate to living a day on the equivalent amount
of local currency as determined by theexchange rate. Rather, it is determined by thepurchasing power
parityrate, which would look at how much local currency is needed to buy the same things that a dollar could
buy in the United States Usually, this would translate to less local currency than the exchange rate in poorer
countries as the United States is a relatively more expensive country.
The poverty line threshold of $1.25 per day, as set by The World Bank, is controversial. Each nation has its
own threshold for absolute poverty line; in the United States, for example, the absolute poverty line was
US$15.15 per day in 2010 (US$22,000 per year for a family of four), while in India it was US$ 1.0 per
day[16]and in China the absolute poverty line was US$ 0.55 per day, each on PPP basis in 2010.[17]These
different poverty lines make data comparison between each nation's official reports qualitatively difficult. Some
scholars argue that The World Bank method sets the bar too high, others argue it is low. Still others suggest
that poverty line misleads as it measures everyone below the poverty line the same, when in reality someone
living on $1.2 per day is in a different state of poverty than someone living on $0.2 per day. In other words, the
depth and intensity of poverty varies across the world and in any regional populations, and $1.25 per day
poverty line and head counts are inadequate measures.
The proportion of thedeveloping world's population living in extreme economic poverty fell from 28 percent in
1990 to 21 percent in 2001.[13]Most of this improvement has occurred inEastand South Asia.[20]In East Asia
the World Bank reported that "The poverty headcount rate at the $2-a-day level is estimated to have fallen to
about 27 percent [in 2007], down from 29.5 percent in 2006 and 69 percent in 1990."[21]InSub-Saharan
Africaextreme poverty went up from 41 percent in 1981 to 46 percent in 2001,[22]which combined with growing
population increased the number of people living in extreme poverty from 231 million to 318 million.[23]
In the early 1990s some of the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia
experienced a sharp drop in income.[24]The collapse of theSoviet Unionresulted in large declines in GDP per
capita, of about 30 to 35% between 1990 and the trough year of 1998 (when it was at its minimum). As a result
poverty rates also increased although in subsequent years as per capita incomes recovered the poverty rate
dropped from 31.4% of the population to 19.6%[25][26]
World Bank data shows that the percentage of the population living in households with consumption or income
per person below the poverty line has decreased in each region of the world since 1990:[27][28]
Region
$1 per day $1.25 per day
1990 2002 2004 1981 2008
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East Asia and Pacific 15.40% 12.33% 9.07% 77.2% 14.3%
Europe and Central Asia 3.60% 1.28% 0.95% 1.9% 0.5%
Latin America and the Caribbean 9.62% 9.08% 8.64% 11.9% 6.5%
Middle East and North Africa 2.08% 1.69% 1.47% 9.6% 2.7%
South Asia 35.04% 33.44% 30.84% 61.1% 36%
Sub-Saharan Africa 46.07% 42.63% 41.09% 51.5% 47.5%
World 52.2% 22.4%
Life expectancy has been increasing and converging for most of the world. Sub-Saharan Africa has recently seen a decline, partly related to
theAIDS epidemic. Graph shows the years 19502005.
According to Chen and Ravallion, about 1.76 billion people in developing world lived above $1.25 per day and
1.9 billion people lived below $1.25 per day in 1981. The world's population increased over the next 25 years.
In 2005, about 4.09 billion people in developing world lived above $1.25 per day and 1.4 billion people lived
below $1.25 per day (both 1981 and 2005 data are on inflation adjusted basis). Some scholars caution that
these trends are subject to various assumptions, and not certain. Additionally, they note that the poverty
reduction is not uniform across the world; economically prospering countries such as China, India and Brazil
have made more progress in absolute poverty reduction than countries in other regions of the world.
The absolute poverty measure trends noted above are supported by human development indicators, which
have also been improving.Life expectancyhas greatly increased in the developing world since World War II
and is starting to close the gap to the developed world.Child mortalityhas decreased in every developing
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region of the world.[33]The proportion of the world's population living in countries where per-capita food supplies
are less than 2,200 calories (9,200kilojoules) per day decreased from 56% in the mid-1960s to below 10% by
the 1990s. Similar trends can be observed for literacy, access to clean water and electricity and basic
consumer items.
Relative poverty
This graph shows the proportion of world population inextreme poverty19812008 according to theWorld Bank.
Relative poverty views poverty as socially defined and dependent onsocial context, hence relative poverty is a
measure of income inequality. Usually, relative poverty is measured as the percentage of population with
income less than some fixed proportion of median income. There are several other differentincome inequality
metrics, for example theGini coefficientor theTheil Index.
Relative poverty measures are used as official poverty rates in several developed countries. As such these
poverty statistics measure inequality rather than material deprivation or hardship. The measurements are
usually based on a person's yearly income and frequently take no account of total wealth. The main poverty
line used in theOECDand theEuropean Unionis based on "economic distance", a level of income set at 60%
of the median household income.
Mobility
Poverty levels are snapshot picture in time that omits the transitional dynamics between levels. Mobility
statistics supply additional information about the fraction who leave the poverty level. For example, one study
finds that in a sixteen-year period (1975 to 1991 in the U.S.) only 5% of those in the lower fifth of the income
level were still in that level, while 95% transitioned to a higher income category.[36]Poverty levels can remain
the same while those who rise out of poverty are replaced by others. The transient poor and chronic poor differ
in each society. In a nine-year period ending in 2005 for the U.S., 50% of the poorest quintile transitioned to a
higher quintile.
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Other aspects
Economic aspects of poverty focus on material needs, typically including the necessities of daily living, such as
food, clothing, shelter, or safe drinking water. Poverty in this sense may be understood as a condition in which
a person or community is lacking in the basic needs for a minimum standard of well-being and life, particularly
as a result of a persistent lack of income.
Analysis of social aspects of poverty links conditions of scarcity to aspects of the distribution of resources and
power in a society and recognizes that poverty may be a function of the diminished "capability" of people to live
the kinds of lives they value. The social aspects of poverty may include lack ofaccess to information,
education, health care, or political power.
Poverty may also be understood as an aspect of unequalsocial statusand inequitable social relationships,
experienced as social exclusion, dependency, and diminished capacity to participate, or to develop meaningful
connections with other people in society. Such social exclusion can be minimized through strengthened
connections with the mainstream, such as through the provision ofrelational careto those who are
experiencing poverty.
An early morning outside the Opera Tavern in Stockholm, with a gang of beggars waiting for delivery of the scraps from the previous
day.Sweden, 1868.
The World Bank's "Voices of the Poor," based on research with over 20,000 poor people in 23 countries,
identifies a range of factors which poor people identify as part of poverty. These include:
Precarious livelihoods
Excluded locations
Physical limitations
Gender relationships
Problems in social relationships
Lack of security
Abuse by those in power
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Dis-empowering institutions
Limited capabilities
Weak community organizations
David Moore, in his book The World Bank, argues that some analysis of poverty reflect pejorative, sometimes
racial, stereotypes of impoverished people as powerless victims and passive recipients of aid programs.
Ultra-poverty, a term apparently coined by Michael Lipton, connotes being amongst poorest of the poor in low-
income countries. Lipton defined ultra-poverty as receiving less than 80 percent of minimum caloric intake
whilst spending more than 80% of income on food. Alternatively a 2007 report issued by International Food
Policy Research Institute defined ultra-poverty as living on less than 54 cents per day.
Asset povertyis an economic and social condition that is more persistent and prevalent than income
poverty.[46]It can be defined as a households inability to access wealth resources that are sufficient enough to
provide for basic needs for a period of three months. Basic needs refer to the minimum standards forconsumption and acceptable needs.[1] Wealth resources consist of home ownership, other real estate (second
home, rented properties, etc.), net value of farm and business assets, stocks, checking and savings accounts,
and other savings (money in savings bonds, life insurance policy cash values, etc.).[2] Wealth is measured in
three forms: net worth, net worth minus home equity, and liquid assets. Net worth consists of all the aspects
mentioned above. Net worth minus home equity is the same except it does not include home ownership in
asset calculations. Liquid assets are resources that are readily available such as cash, checking and savings
accounts, stocks, and other sources of savings.[2] There are two types of assets: tangible and intangible.
Tangible assets most closely resemble liquid assets in that they include stocks, bonds, property, natural
resources, and hard assets not in the form of real estate. Intangible assets are simply the access to credit,
social capital, cultural capital, political capital, and human capital.[3]
Characteristics
The effects of poverty may also be causes, as listed above, thus creating a "poverty cycle" operating across
multiple levels, individual, local, national and global.
Health
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ASomaliboy receiving treatment for malnourishment at a health facility.
One third of deaths some 18 million people a year or 50,000 per day are due to poverty-related causes: in
total 270 million people, most of them women and children, have died as a result of poverty since 1990. Those
living in poverty suffer disproportionately from hunger or evenstarvationand disease. Those living in poverty
suffer lowerlife expectancy. According to theWorld Health Organization,hungerandmalnutritionare the single
gravest threats to the world's public health and malnutrition is by far the biggest contributor tochild mortality,
present in half of all cases.[49]Almost 90% ofmaternal deathsduring childbirth occur in Asia and sub-Saharan
Africa, compared to less than 1% in the developed world.
Those who live in poverty have also been shown to have a far greater likelihood of having or incurring
adisabilitywithin their lifetime.[51]Infectious diseasessuch asmalariaandtuberculosiscan perpetuate poverty
by diverting health and economic resources from investment and productivity; malaria decreases GDP growth
by up to 1.3% in some developing nations and AIDS decreases African growth by 0.31.5% annually.[52][53][54]
Hunger
People who earn their living by collecting and sorting garbage and selling them for recycling, Payatas,Manila, Philippines.
Rises in the costs of living making poor people less able to afford items. Poor people spend agreater portion of
their budgetson food than richer people. As a result, poor households and those near the poverty threshold
can be particularly vulnerable to increases infood prices. For example, in late 2007 increases in the price of
grains led tofood riotsin some countries. TheWorld Bankwarned that 100 million people were at risk of sinking
deeper into poverty. Threats to the supply of food may also be caused by drought and thewater
crisis.Intensive farmingoften leads to a vicious cycle of exhaustion ofsoil fertilityand decline ofagricultural
yields. Approximately 40% of the world'sagricultural landis seriously degraded.[62][63]InAfrica, if current trends
ofsoil degradationcontinue, the continent might be able to feed just 25% of its population by 2025, according
toUnited Nations University's Ghana-based Institute for Natural Resources in Africa.[64]Every year nearly 11
million children living in poverty die before their fifth birthday. 1.02 billion people go to bed hungry every night.
According to theGlobal Hunger Index, Sub-Saharan Africa had the highest child malnutrition rate of the world's
regions over the 2001-2006 period.
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Education
Afghan girl begging inKabul.
Research has found that there is a high risk of educational underachievement for children who are from low-
income housing circumstances. This often is a process that begins in primary school for some less fortunate
children. Instruction in the US educational system, as well as in most other countries, tends to be geared
towards those students who come from more advantaged backgrounds. As a result, children in povery are at a
higher risk than advantaged children for retention in their grade, special deleterious placements during the
school's hours and even not completing their high school education.[67]There are indeed many explanations for
why students tend to drop out of school. One is the conditions of which they attend school. Schools in poverty-
stricken areas have conditions that hinder children from learning in a safe environment. Researchers have
developed a name for areas like this: urban war zone is a poor, crime-laden district in which deteriorated,
violent, even war-like conditions and underfunded, largely ineffective schools promote inferior academic
performance, including irregular attendance and disruptive or non-compliant classroom behavior.[68]For
children with low resources, the risk factors are similar to others such asjuvenile delinquencyrates, higher
levels ofteenage pregnancy, and the economic dependency upon their low income parent or
parents.[67]Families and society who submit low levels of investment in the education and development of less
fortunate children end up with less favorable results for the children who see a life of parental employment
reduction and low wages. Higher rates of earlychildbearingwith all the connected risks to family, health and
well-being are majorly important issues to address since education from preschool to high school are both
identifiably meaningful in a life.
Poverty often drastically affects children's success in school. A child's "home activities, preferences,
mannerisms" must align with the world and in the cases that they do not these students are at a disadvantagein the school and most importantly the classroom.[69]Therefore, it is safe to state that children who live at or
below the poverty level will have far less success educationally than children who live above the poverty line.
Poor children have a great deal less healthcare and this ultimately results in many absences from the academic
year. Additionally, poor children are much more likely to suffer from hunger, fatigue, irritability, headaches, ear
infections, flu, and colds. These illnesses could potentially restrict a child or student's focus and concentration.
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Housing and utilities
Street child inBangladesh
Homeless children in the US grew from 1.2 million in 2007 to 1.6 million in 2010. The United States defines homelessness pe rMcKinney
Vento Homeless Assistance Act, according to which homeless includes those who live in public assistance, shelters or homes provided by
another person.
Poverty increases the risk ofhomelessness. Slum-dwellers, who make up a third of the world's urban
population, live in a poverty no better, if not worse, than rural people, who are the traditional focus of the
poverty in thedeveloping world, according to a report by the United Nations. There are over 100 millionstreet
childrenworldwide. Most of the children living in institutions around the world have a surviving parent or close
relative, and they most commonly entered orphanages because of poverty. Experts and child advocates
maintain that orphanages are expensive and often harm children'sdevelopmentby separating them from their
families It is speculated that, flush with money, orphanages are increasing and push for children to join even
though demographic data show that even the poorest extended families usually take in children whose parents
have died.
Because of poor targeting of utility water subsidies, only 30%, on average, of the supplying costs in developing
countries is covered. Lack of incentive to maintain delivery systems lead to the loss from leaks annually that is
enough for 200 million people. Lack of incentive to expand delivery means the poor have to pay about five to
16 times the metered price.
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The poorest fifth receive 0.1% of the worlds lighting but pay a fifth of total spending on light, accounting for 25
to 30 percent of their income. Indoor air pollution from burning fuels kills 2 million, almost half the deaths are
from pneumonia in children under 5. Fuel from Bamboo burns more cleanly and also matures much faster than
wood, thus reducing deforestation. Additionally, the use of solar panels are cheaper over their lifetime.
Violence
According to experts, many women become victims of trafficking, the most common form of which
isprostitution, as a means of survival and economic desperation. Deterioration of living conditions can often
compel children to abandon school in order to contribute to the family income, putting them at risk of being
exploited, according toECPAT International, an NGO designed to end thecommercial sexual exploitation of
children. For example, inZimbabwe, a number of girls are turning to prostitution for food to survive because of
the increasing poverty.
In one survey, 67% of children from disadvantagedinner citiessaid they had witnessed a serious assault, and
33% reported witnessing a homicide. 51% of fifth graders fromNew Orleans(median income for a household:
$27,133) have been found to be victims of violence, compared to 32% in Washington, DC (mean income for a
household: $40,127).
Poverty reduction
Various poverty reduction strategies are broadly categorized here based on whether they make more of the
basic human needs available or increase thedisposable incomeneeded to purchase those needs. Some basic
needs, such as improving access to education, may also help increase income.
Increasing the supply of basic needs
Before theIndustrial Revolution, poverty had been mostly accepted as inevitable as economies produced little,
making wealth scarce.[1]Geoffrey Parker wrote that "InAntwerpandLyon, two of the largest cities inwestern
Europe, by 1600 three-quarters of the total population were too poor to pay taxes, and therefore likely to need
relief in times of crisis." The initial industrial revolution led to high economic growth and eliminated mass
absolute poverty in what is now considered the developed world.
Food and other goods
Agricultural technologies such asnitrogen fertilizers, pesticides and new irrigation methods have dramaticallyreduced food shortages in modern times by boosting yields past previous constraints.
Mass productionof goods in places such as rapidly industrializing China has made what were once considered
luxuries, such as vehicles and computers, inexpensive and thus accessible to many who were otherwise too
poor to afford them.
Health care and education
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Hardwood surgical tables are commonplace in rural Nigerianclinics.
See also:Health care systemandPrimary education
Nations do not necessarily need wealth to gain health. For example,Sri Lankahad amaternal mortality rateof
2% in the 1930s, higher than any nation today It reduced it to 0.50.6% in the 1950s and to .06% today while
spending less each year onmaternal healthbecause it learned what worked and what did not.[91]Cheapwater
filtersand promoting hand washing are some of the most cost effective health interventions and can
cutdeathsfromdiarrheaandpneumonia. Knowledge on the cost effectiveness of healthcare interventions can
be elusive and educational measures have been made to disseminate what works, such as theCopenhagen
Consensus.
Strategies to provide education cost effectively includedewormingchildren, which costs about 50 cents per
child per year and reduces non-attendance fromanemia, illness and malnutrition, while being only a twenty-fifth
as expensive as increasing school attendance by constructing schools Schoolgirl absenteeism could be cut in
half by simply providing freesanitary towelsAlso, when women are given more capabilities and opportunities,
they seem more altruistic in helping the family and more likely to prioritize education.
Desirable actions such as enrolling children in school or receiving vaccinations can be encouraged by a form of
aid known asconditional cash transfers. InMexico, for example, dropout rates of 16- to 19-year-olds in rural
area dropped by 20% and children gained half an inch in height. Initial fears that the program would encourage
families to stay at home rather than work to collect benefits have proven to be unfounded. Instead, there is less
excuse for neglectful behavior as, for example, children stopped begging on the streets instead of going to
school because it could result in suspension from the program.
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