Abstract:Few persons and agencies dedicated to and experienced in economic and social development would disagree that poverty and its alleviation is a fundamental purpose of all development programmes. Differe...Few persons and agencies dedicated to and experienced in economic and social development would disagree that poverty and its alleviation is a fundamental purpose of all development programmes. Different dictionaries and social commentaries define ‘poverty’: ‘the condition of owning neither wealth nor material possessions’; ‘having insufficient income and resources to sustain healthy survival’; ‘suffering a lack of basic human needs: adequate food, clothing, housing, clean water, health services and hygienic sanitation’. These quotations define ‘absolute’ or ‘near-absolute’ poverty and destitution. Except for a few extreme cases, among affluent nations poverty exists as ‘relative’ rather than as ‘absolute’ poverty, where certain segments of society own less and receive lower incomes than the majority. The world's poorest people, most in Africa and Asia, are so poor they struggle to survive.Read More
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-08-31
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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