An indicator of the number and proportion of people with inadequate family incomes for needed consumption of food and other goods and services. Currently only has been updated for inflation.
According to the World Bank, poverty is an inability to attain a minimal standard of living and subsist (that is obtain sufficient food, shelter and clothing to remain secure and well). Like quality of life poverty is a relative term and is linked to ideas about inequality. As Saunders ( 1996) notes, for the Australian context, relative poverty means 'lacking the resources required to be able to participate in the lifestyle and consumption patterns enjoyed by other Australians. To be relatively poor is thus to be forced to live on the margins of society, to be excluded from the normal spheres of consumption and activity which together define social participation and national identity'.
One of the three evangelical counsels* or vows.* The vow of poverty requires that a person give us the use (simple vows*) and ultimately the right of ownership (solemn vows*) of all he possesses. In the Augustinian tradition all things are held in common. The individual religious turns over anything he acquires to the community, and the community in turn takes care of all his needs (personal, medical, and educational). The vow of Poverty is meant to focus a person's attention on the most valuable of all possessions, God himself, and, by sustaining the community's mission with his contributions, to share what he has with the poor.
the condition of being poor. People can be reduced to poverty if their way of life is threatened, or if they do not have enough land, money or other resources to enjoy a reasonable standard of life. Poverty differs from one country to another. People in the UK feel they are poor if they do not own a car or a TV. Only wealthy people in Kenya would hope to own such things.
A lack of money or material possessions such that a person is unable to meet the basic needs necessary for survival. The definition of poverty varies depending on the social context and what is held to be an 'acceptable' standard of living.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines poverty as: ‘The condition of having little or no wealth or material possessions; indigence, destitution, want’, and suggests its first use was in AD 1075. In recent years, research tapping the perspectives of poor people has recognized that poverty involves a wider set of deprivations, including vulnerability and exclusion from society, in addition to material destitution.
Level of income, food, health care, education, shelter that is below minimum quality of life standards; usually precludes full growth and development.
the condition of being poor or deprived of material belongings.
The state of being poor, variously defined. Sometimes defined relatively — by reference, for example, to the average household income in a nation or region. Sometimes defined absolutely — by reference, for example, to the income needed to provide for adequate food, housing, and clothing in a nation or region. View Capstone Lesson(s) that address this concept
A person is "poor" or "in poverty" if they reside in a household with income below the U.S. poverty threshold, as defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. Poverty thresholds differ by family size and are updated annually for inflation using the Consumer Price Index. However, they do not take into account geographic differences in the cost of living.
the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
The state of being poor; lack of the means of providing material needs or comforts.
Condition of being unable to achieve an adequate standard of living. Today, standards of living vary greatly among and within nations. Nonetheless, the effects of poverty remain constant: hunger, homelessness, lack of education, and lack of resources to fulfill basic human needs. For example, one of the main causes of hunger is poverty. Most people who are starving do not have the means to obtain the food that they need..
a situation where there are not enough resources to maintain an adequate standard of life
People are said to be living in poverty if their income and resources are so inadequate as to preclude them from having a standard of living considered acceptable in Irish society. Because of their poverty they may experience multiple disadvantage through unemployment, low income, poor housing, inadequate health care and barriers to education. They are often excluded and marginalised from participating in activities that are the norm for other people. See also consistent poverty, relative income poverty
This is where people are poor, have no savings, own very little and often have low living standards.
Having few material possessions; poor.
a condition where people have little or no income, money and goods. Causes of poverty include unemployment, a lack of economic resources such as land ownership, and social factors including discrimination.
All baptised persons are called to a reverent appreciation of the resources available to them. Women and men who vow poverty commit themselves to living simply, to sharing all things in common and not exercising ownership over things, for the good of their religious community and its mission in the Church.
the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions.
The state of being poor. The technical definition - including what's considered income and what it's measured against - is a matter of growing controversy.
A set of money-income thresholds determined by the Census Bureau that vary by family size and composition. If a family's total income is less than that family's threshold, then that family, and every individual in it, is considered to be poor.
A state in which a family's income is too low to be able to buy the quantities of food, shelter, and clothing that are deemed necessary.
Following the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB's) Directive 14, the Census Bureau uses a set of money income thresholds that vary by family size and composition to detect who is poor. If the total income for a family or unrelated individual falls below the relevant poverty threshold, then the family or unrelated individual is classified as being "below the poverty level." Related term: Income
n: Inability to meet basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter.
Poverty is a condition in which a person or community is deprived of, or lacks the essentials for a minimum standard of well-being and life. Since poverty is understood in many senses,D Gordon, P Spicker, The International glossary on poverty, Zed Books. these essentials may be material resources such as food, safe drinking water, and shelter, or they may be social resources such as access to information, education, health care, social status, political powerFor the http://www.journalofpoverty.org/JOPPURP/JOPPURP.HTM Journal of Poverty's statement of purpose:Poverty is an overall condition of inadequacy, lacking, and scarcity. It is destitution and deficiency of economic, political, and social resources., or the opportunity to develop meaningful connections with other people in societyhttp://www.paho.org/english/sha/be_v23n1-glossary.htm A Glossary for Social Epidemiology Nancy Krieger, PhD Harvard University School of Public HealthTo be impoverished is to lack or be denied adequate resources to participate meaningfully in society.
