Poverty and the Measurements
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https://doi.org/10.24200/jmas.vol2iss02pp52-58Abstract
Poverty is a condition in which a person or community lacks the fundamentals for having a minimum standard of well-being and life. Methodology: These fundamentals may be material resources such as food, safe drinking water, and shelter or they may include social resources like access to information, education, health care, social status, and political power, or the opportunity to develop meaningful connections with other people in society. Results: Poverty amid plenty is the world's greatest challenge and eradicating poverty is an ethical, social, political and economic imperative of humankind. To eliminate or reduce poverty it should be measured. The aim of measuring poverty is usually to make economic status comparisons between two or more groups. Conclusion: The present research examined the measures of poverty and then consequences and different aspects of poverty were regarded. Finally, poverty reduction and critiques of the poverty measure were described.References
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