Poverty is the state of being without, often associated with need, hardship and lack of resources across a wide range of circumstances. For some, poverty is a subjective and comparative term; for others, it is moral and evaluative; and for others, income inequality metrics. The principal uses of the term include: *Descriptions of material need, including deprivation of essential goods and services, multiple deprivation, and patterns of deprivation over time. *Economic circumstances, describing a lack of wealth (usually understood as capital (economics), money, material goods, or resources, especially natural resources). The meaning of "sufficient" varies widely across the different politics and economics parts of the world. In the European Union, poverty is also described in terms of "economic distance", or inequality. *Social relationships, including social exclusion, dependency, and the ability to live what is understood in a society as a "normal" life: for instance, to be capable of raising a healthy family, and especially educating children and participating in society. A person living in the condition of poverty is said to be poor or impoverished. ==Discourses on poverty== Poverty is studied by many social, scientific and cultural disciplines. *In economics, two kinds of poverty are considered: absolute poverty and relative poverty. * In politics, the fight against poverty is usually regarded as a social goal and most governments have — secondarily at least — some dedicated institutions or departments. The work done by these bodies is mostly limited to census studies and identification of some income level below which a citizen is technically considered poor. Active interventions may include housing plans, social pensions, special job opportunities, or requirements. Some ideologies (such as Marxism) argue that the economists and politicians actively work to create poverty. Other theories consider poverty a sign of a failing economic system and one of the main causes of crime. * In law, poverty is recognised, in most developed countries, as a mitigating factor for the determination of the punishment, being usually considered coincident with a generic and permanent state of need which can affect and alter the correct capability of clearly or freely identifying the legally and socially acceptable behaviour. Poverty is generally argued to cause increased crime rates amongst the poor by increasing their stress (psychology). * In education, poverty affects a student's ability to effectively profit from the learning environments. Especially for younger students coming from poverty, their primary needs as described in Abraham Maslow's Maslow's hierarchy of needs; the need for a safe and stable homes, clothes on their backs, and regular meals clouds a student's ability to learn. Furthermore, in education circles there is a term used to characterize the phenomenon of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer (as it relates to education but easily transfers to poverty in general) is the Matthew effect. Related debates on a states' human capital and a person's individual capital tend likewise to focus on access to the instructional capital and social capital available only to those educated in such formal systems. ==World poverty== The Copenhagen Declaration describes absolute poverty as "a condition characterised by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information." The World Bank identifies "extreme poverty" as being people who live on less than United States dollar $1 a day, and "poverty" as less than $2 a day. On that standard, 21% of the world's population was in extreme poverty, and more than half the world's population were poor in 2001. [http://www.developmentgoals.org/Poverty.htm#percapita] [http://www.borgenproject.org/ The Borgen Project] points out that while U.S. leaders give $230 billion a year to military contractors, only $19 billion a year is needed to achieve the [http://www.borgenproject.org/Ending_poverty.html U.N. Millennium Development goal] of ending severe poverty by 2025. Poverty may be seen as the collective condition of poor people, or of poor groups, and in this sense entire nation are sometimes regarded as poor. To avoid stigma these are usually called developing nations, but this too is considered derogatory by some. Maps of world poverty can be found at [http://www.povertymap.net/ povertymap.net]. There is evidence of poverty in every region. In developed countries, this condition results in wandering homelessness people and poor suburbs (with so-called bidonvilles or favelas) in which poor people are—more or less—restricted to a ghetto. See List of countries by poverty. ==Causes of poverty== Poverty has been attributed to: *individual, or "pathological" causes, which see poverty as the result of the behaviour, choices or abilities of the poor; *familial causes, which attribute poverty to upbringing; *subcultural causes, which attribute poverty to common patterns of life, learned or shared within a community; *agency causes, which see poverty as the result of the actions of others, including government and the economy; and *structural causes, which argue that poverty is the result of the social structure. Although it is widely thought that poverty and unemployment are a result of laziness, the United States for instance (per capita the wealthiest nation in the world) has millions of what are termed the working poor; that is, persons not on welfare or immediate public assistance plans, yet who fail to rise above the poverty line. ==Eliminating poverty== The main responses to poverty are: *Poor Relief, or giving aid direct to poor people. This has been part of the approach of European societies since the middle ages. For example, the relief of poverty was recognised as a legal charitable trust purpose by the English Statute of Charitable Uses (Statute of Elizabeth I of England) in 1601. *Responses to individual circumstances. A variety of measures have been taken to change the situation of poor people on an individual basis, including e.g. punishment, education, social work, employment, and workfare. *Provision for contingencies. Rather than providing for poor people directly, many welfare states have provided for categories of people who are likely to be poor, such as old people or people with disabilities, or circumstances which may impoverish people, like the need for health care. *Strategic intervention. Many people have argued that poor people can be helped to change their circumstances through focusing on selected, specific measures. Examples have included political participation, urban regeneration and the development of social capital. *Economic development. The anti-poverty strategy of the [http://www.worldbank.org/poverty World Bank] depends heavily on preventing poverty through the promotion of economic growth. It is often argued that "a rising tide lifts all boats," though as critics comment, it can also sink some. Many societies at various times have tried to eliminate poverty, through numerous measures including education, industrialization, and through forms of social welfare. A true solution has remained elusive. ==Debates about poverty== Poverty is a highly political issue. People with right wing views often see it as related to laziness, a lack of family planning or too much interference of government. People with left wing views see it more in terms of social justice and lack of opportunity in education. It is a highly complex issue in which various factors often play a part. The condition in itself is not always considered negatively, even if this is the prevalent interpretation: some cultural or religious groups consider poverty an ideal condition to live in, a condition necessary in order to reach certain spiritual or intellectual states. Poverty in this sense is understood as the lack of material possessions. For some orders this is equivalent to voluntary simplicity: Mother Teresa said that the vow "frees us from all material possessions". However the vow of poverty traditionally goes beyond that: the Dominican Orders "lived a life of voluntary poverty, exposing themselves to innumerable dangers and sufferings, for the salvation of others." (Pope Honorius III, 1217). There are also several different ways to measure poverty. See income inequality metrics. ==Literature== *Frances Fox Piven, Richard A. Cloward, ''Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare'', Vintage Books 1993 *Jean Swanson, ''Poor-Bashing: The Politics of Exclusion'', 2001 ==External links== [http://www.borgenproject.org/ Borgen Project] Global effort to make poverty the number one priority of U.S. political leaders. *[http://www.makepovertyhistory.org/ Make Poverty History] — Campaign dealing with fighting poverty. *[http://topics.developmentgateway.org/poverty Poverty] — The Development Gateway community portal on Poverty is a comprehensive collection of articles, reports, data, statistics, projects and other resources. *[http://www.povertynet.org/ PovertyNet] — PovertyNet from The World Bank Group provides an introduction to key issues as well as in-depth information on poverty measurement, monitoring, analysis, and on poverty reduction strategies for researchers and practitioners. *[http://www.cgdev.org Center for Global Development] — The Center for Global Development is a Washington, D.C. policy center pursuing research-based, actionable ideas for the fight against global poverty. *[http://search.looksmart.com/p/browse/us1/us317836/us317916/us65566/us63968/ LookSmart — Poverty Issues] directory category *[http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Poverty/ Open Directory Project — Poverty Issues] directory category *[http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Issues_and_Causes/Poverty/ Yahoo! — Poverty Issues and Causes] directory category Economics Socioeconomics Social justice Development Development Studies
This article seems substandard to me. The definition of poverty seems poor (no pun intended). Insufficient means to live implies starving to death. Let's distinguish between poverty in the sense of the line separating the middle class from those of lesser means -- and people dying from famine. A few months back I tried to find a definition of poverty level, but hours on online searching (maybe I'm inefficient) got me hardly anywhere, which is embarassing for someone with my last name (poor). --User:Ed Poor ::In law, poverty is recognised, in most systems of developed countries, as a mitigating factor for the determination of the punishment, being usually considered coincident with a generic and permanent state of need which can affect and alter the correct capability of clearly or freely identifying the legally and socially acceptable behaviour. :::I know the french have very specific laws on mitigating punishment for the 'poor' I'll see if I can find an 'expert' to help us on that one.--dgd : It also takes a very materialist approach to poverty... for some poverty is a derth of the psychological and not the material. ---- What are factual means? Why is Planet capitalized. Sounds sort of new age. ---- ''many societies employ social workers to fight poverty by a variety of methods ranging from moral persuasion to direct financial subsidy.'' :Do they convince them they are not poor, or what? :Excluding collective hypnosis, what precisely this refers to? User:Gianfranco ::The political right considers poverty to be a choice. Hence the mantra, ::"Get a job." ---- A person living in this condition of poverty is said to be poor. The poor becomes to live is a state of poverty because society has pressured them to be so. A family of limited resources living in a remote mountain village in a "third world" country like...example the Philippines...will easily classify to be "poor" by today's "first world" standard. They are not necessarily living in a state of poverty. But this same family, when overtaken by ubanization becomes impoverish when they are marginalized by society itself especially if their government is insensitive. == poverty cycle? == There is no mention of the poverty cycle playing a part in ... poverty. Or even formally stated, a "sociological" cause in causing poverty. Poverty breeds poverty in a quid pro quo economy. I just happened to request an elaboration be put here because the article on Anarcho-Communism needs it as it discusses the subject as a solution to solve poverty (because it links to a non-existent article named the poverty cycle). Now, if it was included in this article, I could simply change it, rather than having to create a toally new article. -- User:Natalinasmpf 20:46, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC) ----------------------- == Relative and Absolute == there is no mention of relative and absolute poverty here. this needs a bit of tidying. and no mention of any other wikipedia pages under a "See Also". == Live Aid II == Should Live Aid II (http://live8live.com/) be mentioned?
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Poverty
Poverty is the state of being without, often associated with need, hardship and lack of resources across a wide range of circumstances. For some, poverty is a subjective and comparative term; for others, it is moral and evaluative; and for others, income inequality metrics. The principal uses of the term include: *Descriptions of material need, including deprivation of essential goods and services, multiple deprivation, and patterns of deprivation over time. *Economic circumstances, describing a lack of wealth (usually understood as capital (economics), money, material goods, or resources, especially natural resources). The meaning of "sufficient" varies widely across the different politics and economics parts of the world. In the European Union, poverty is also described in terms of "economic distance", or inequality. *Social relationships, including social exclusion, dependency, and the ability to live what is understood in a society as a "normal" life: for instance, to be capable of raising a healthy family, and especially educating children and participating in society. A person living in the condition of poverty is said to be poor or impoverished. ==Discourses on poverty== Poverty is studied by many social, scientific and cultural disciplines. *In economics, two kinds of poverty are considered: absolute poverty and relative poverty. * In politics, the fight against poverty is usually regarded as a social goal and most governments have — secondarily at least — some dedicated institutions or departments. The work done by these bodies is mostly limited to census studies and identification of some income level below which a citizen is technically considered poor. Active interventions may include housing plans, social pensions, special job opportunities, or requirements. Some ideologies (such as Marxism) argue that the economists and politicians actively work to create poverty. Other theories consider poverty a sign of a failing economic system and one of the main causes of crime. * In law, poverty is recognised, in most developed countries, as a mitigating factor for the determination of the punishment, being usually considered coincident with a generic and permanent state of need which can affect and alter the correct capability of clearly or freely identifying the legally and socially acceptable behaviour. Poverty is generally argued to cause increased crime rates amongst the poor by increasing their stress (psychology). * In education, poverty affects a student's ability to effectively profit from the learning environments. Especially for younger students coming from poverty, their primary needs as described in Abraham Maslow's Maslow's hierarchy of needs; the need for a safe and stable homes, clothes on their backs, and regular meals clouds a student's ability to learn. Furthermore, in education circles there is a term used to characterize the phenomenon of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer (as it relates to education but easily transfers to poverty in general) is the Matthew effect. Related debates on a states' human capital and a person's individual capital tend likewise to focus on access to the instructional capital and social capital available only to those educated in such formal systems. ==World poverty== The Copenhagen Declaration describes absolute poverty as "a condition characterised by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information." The World Bank identifies "extreme poverty" as being people who live on less than United States dollar $1 a day, and "poverty" as less than $2 a day. On that standard, 21% of the world's population was in extreme poverty, and more than half the world's population were poor in 2001. [http://www.developmentgoals.org/Poverty.htm#percapita] [http://www.borgenproject.org/ The Borgen Project] points out that while U.S. leaders give $230 billion a year to military contractors, only $19 billion a year is needed to achieve the [http://www.borgenproject.org/Ending_poverty.html U.N. Millennium Development goal] of ending severe poverty by 2025. Poverty may be seen as the collective condition of poor people, or of poor groups, and in this sense entire nation are sometimes regarded as poor. To avoid stigma these are usually called developing nations, but this too is considered derogatory by some. Maps of world poverty can be found at [http://www.povertymap.net/ povertymap.net]. There is evidence of poverty in every region. In developed countries, this condition results in wandering homelessness people and poor suburbs (with so-called bidonvilles or favelas) in which poor people are—more or less—restricted to a ghetto. See List of countries by poverty. ==Causes of poverty== Poverty has been attributed to: *individual, or "pathological" causes, which see poverty as the result of the behaviour, choices or abilities of the poor; *familial causes, which attribute poverty to upbringing; *subcultural causes, which attribute poverty to common patterns of life, learned or shared within a community; *agency causes, which see poverty as the result of the actions of others, including government and the economy; and *structural causes, which argue that poverty is the result of the social structure. Although it is widely thought that poverty and unemployment are a result of laziness, the United States for instance (per capita the wealthiest nation in the world) has millions of what are termed the working poor; that is, persons not on welfare or immediate public assistance plans, yet who fail to rise above the poverty line. ==Eliminating poverty== The main responses to poverty are: *Poor Relief, or giving aid direct to poor people. This has been part of the approach of European societies since the middle ages. For example, the relief of poverty was recognised as a legal charitable trust purpose by the English Statute of Charitable Uses (Statute of Elizabeth I of England) in 1601. *Responses to individual circumstances. A variety of measures have been taken to change the situation of poor people on an individual basis, including e.g. punishment, education, social work, employment, and workfare. *Provision for contingencies. Rather than providing for poor people directly, many welfare states have provided for categories of people who are likely to be poor, such as old people or people with disabilities, or circumstances which may impoverish people, like the need for health care. *Strategic intervention. Many people have argued that poor people can be helped to change their circumstances through focusing on selected, specific measures. Examples have included political participation, urban regeneration and the development of social capital. *Economic development. The anti-poverty strategy of the [http://www.worldbank.org/poverty World Bank] depends heavily on preventing poverty through the promotion of economic growth. It is often argued that "a rising tide lifts all boats," though as critics comment, it can also sink some. Many societies at various times have tried to eliminate poverty, through numerous measures including education, industrialization, and through forms of social welfare. A true solution has remained elusive. ==Debates about poverty== Poverty is a highly political issue. People with right wing views often see it as related to laziness, a lack of family planning or too much interference of government. People with left wing views see it more in terms of social justice and lack of opportunity in education. It is a highly complex issue in which various factors often play a part. The condition in itself is not always considered negatively, even if this is the prevalent interpretation: some cultural or religious groups consider poverty an ideal condition to live in, a condition necessary in order to reach certain spiritual or intellectual states. Poverty in this sense is understood as the lack of material possessions. For some orders this is equivalent to voluntary simplicity: Mother Teresa said that the vow "frees us from all material possessions". However the vow of poverty traditionally goes beyond that: the Dominican Orders "lived a life of voluntary poverty, exposing themselves to innumerable dangers and sufferings, for the salvation of others." (Pope Honorius III, 1217). There are also several different ways to measure poverty. See income inequality metrics. ==Literature== *Frances Fox Piven, Richard A. Cloward, ''Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare'', Vintage Books 1993 *Jean Swanson, ''Poor-Bashing: The Politics of Exclusion'', 2001 ==External links== [http://www.borgenproject.org/ Borgen Project] Global effort to make poverty the number one priority of U.S. political leaders. *[http://www.makepovertyhistory.org/ Make Poverty History] — Campaign dealing with fighting poverty. *[http://topics.developmentgateway.org/poverty Poverty] — The Development Gateway community portal on Poverty is a comprehensive collection of articles, reports, data, statistics, projects and other resources. *[http://www.povertynet.org/ PovertyNet] — PovertyNet from The World Bank Group provides an introduction to key issues as well as in-depth information on poverty measurement, monitoring, analysis, and on poverty reduction strategies for researchers and practitioners. *[http://www.cgdev.org Center for Global Development] — The Center for Global Development is a Washington, D.C. policy center pursuing research-based, actionable ideas for the fight against global poverty. *[http://search.looksmart.com/p/browse/us1/us317836/us317916/us65566/us63968/ LookSmart — Poverty Issues] directory category *[http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Poverty/ Open Directory Project — Poverty Issues] directory category *[http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Issues_and_Causes/Poverty/ Yahoo! — Poverty Issues and Causes] directory category Economics Socioeconomics Social justice Development Development Studies
Poverty
This article seems substandard to me. The definition of poverty seems poor (no pun intended). Insufficient means to live implies starving to death. Let's distinguish between poverty in the sense of the line separating the middle class from those of lesser means -- and people dying from famine. A few months back I tried to find a definition of poverty level, but hours on online searching (maybe I'm inefficient) got me hardly anywhere, which is embarassing for someone with my last name (poor). --User:Ed Poor ::In law, poverty is recognised, in most systems of developed countries, as a mitigating factor for the determination of the punishment, being usually considered coincident with a generic and permanent state of need which can affect and alter the correct capability of clearly or freely identifying the legally and socially acceptable behaviour. :::I know the french have very specific laws on mitigating punishment for the 'poor' I'll see if I can find an 'expert' to help us on that one.--dgd : It also takes a very materialist approach to poverty... for some poverty is a derth of the psychological and not the material. ---- What are factual means? Why is Planet capitalized. Sounds sort of new age. ---- ''many societies employ social workers to fight poverty by a variety of methods ranging from moral persuasion to direct financial subsidy.'' :Do they convince them they are not poor, or what? :Excluding collective hypnosis, what precisely this refers to? User:Gianfranco ::The political right considers poverty to be a choice. Hence the mantra, ::"Get a job." ---- A person living in this condition of poverty is said to be poor. The poor becomes to live is a state of poverty because society has pressured them to be so. A family of limited resources living in a remote mountain village in a "third world" country like...example the Philippines...will easily classify to be "poor" by today's "first world" standard. They are not necessarily living in a state of poverty. But this same family, when overtaken by ubanization becomes impoverish when they are marginalized by society itself especially if their government is insensitive. == poverty cycle? == There is no mention of the poverty cycle playing a part in ... poverty. Or even formally stated, a "sociological" cause in causing poverty. Poverty breeds poverty in a quid pro quo economy. I just happened to request an elaboration be put here because the article on Anarcho-Communism needs it as it discusses the subject as a solution to solve poverty (because it links to a non-existent article named the poverty cycle). Now, if it was included in this article, I could simply change it, rather than having to create a toally new article. -- User:Natalinasmpf 20:46, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC) ----------------------- == Relative and Absolute == there is no mention of relative and absolute poverty here. this needs a bit of tidying. and no mention of any other wikipedia pages under a "See Also". == Live Aid II == Should Live Aid II (http://live8live.com/) be mentioned?
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