| "Poverty anywhere is a threat to prosperity | | | | the community or dependent on other more |
| everywhere". It is a scrooge and one of the worst | | | | powerful groups or individuals in order to express |
| curses and miseries that a human can face. According | | | | their own rights and choices. |
| to Homer. "This, this is misery! The last, the worst, | | | | In social terms poverty in a country, a region or a |
| that man can feel". | | | | household breeds all types of socially unacceptable |
| Poverty can be measured either in absolute terms, | | | | behaviours like drug addiction, crime, prostitution, |
| for example, the number of those who cannot | | | | violence and terrorism in a family or in a community. |
| afford more than two pairs of shoes, or in relative | | | | These factors degrade human self-respect, moral and |
| terms, for example, the number of the poorest ten | | | | social values of the society as a whole and as a |
| percent of house-holds. In either sense it is a | | | | result more and more people in the community |
| concept, which is defined arbitrarily. Poverty exists | | | | become intolerant and rude towards each other in |
| not only because incomes are low, but also because | | | | their day to day life. |
| the needs of certain low income households are high. | | | | In environmental dimension, poverty destroys the |
| Poverty has many dimensions, which include | | | | living environment not only of those who live in |
| economic, political, social environmental and human | | | | poverty but of all other human beings as well as |
| dimensions. In economic terms a county, a region or | | | | non-human living things that depend on the same |
| a household is poor when the per capita income of a | | | | resources and ecosystem on which those living in |
| country or the income of a household is very low. | | | | poverty depend and survive People living in poverty |
| Similarly the purchasing power of a poor country or | | | | cannot change their behaviours easily because of lack |
| household is below a certain minimum standard; there | | | | of resources, knowledge about their own |
| are low medical care and health facilities, productivity | | | | surroundings and education. Thus by destroying their |
| is very low and there is illiteracy. | | | | own living environment, the poor in reality are |
| In political terms a country, a region or a group of | | | | destroying their own resources on which they |
| people are poor when they do not have a voice in | | | | survive in the long run. |