Research Paper on:
Defining Poverty

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with definitions are discussed in respect to measuring poverty in a global fashion. Bibliography lists 4 sources. SA123pov.rtf Poverty may  be understood and defined as either a concept that comes from low income or simply as a consequence of insufficient disposable income ("The concept," 2001). There are different concepts  integral in each definition and that is that indirect poverty is measured in relationship to disposable income but the concept of direct poverty is related to how low income is  related to consumption and lifestyle or other factors that are related to deprivation (2001). Yet, one might take both of those concepts and think it ludicrous in light of actual  poverty in the third world for example. In countries that are largely poor, the people do not merely feel deprived. They require food and fresh water to survive physically. Surely,  some definition relates to poverty as an intrinsic variable and not as a socially constructed phenomenon. That idea, while well intentioned, is really not what poverty is by definition. Still,  the idea that poverty is relative to Western wealth is somewhat neglectful of the rest of the world. How does one compare a child from Bangladesh to a child in  New Yorks inner city whose poverty level status still affords him cable television? This question, along with others, surfaces as one broaches the question of poverty.  There are of course various ways of measuring poverty, but in contemplating the international situation, one does need to find the best way to accomplish the measurement.  Three completely different approaches may be used in defining poverty which are basic needs, relative poverty and multiple deprivation factors ("The concept," 2001). Dependent upon the approach taken, poverty