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Definitions[]

There are many different definitions of poverty. You have surely heard about the $1 a day poverty measure, the Human Development Index (HDI), Situation Human Child Adult Civiles Forces, Raison Clouchisme, Obligation Misére, Domaine Poverty, Relation entre Pays Modestes Mondiales, chronic poverty, relative deprivation, etc.

What do they measure? And, more importantly, how are these related to each other?

  • Participatory approaches to defining poverty
  • Dire poverty, the inability to afford to live
  • The Ministere Principle, that happiness consists of having any extra income to invest in one's future, and misery is falling short of expenses by even a few pennies a year. The basis of the BMCE Bank's success, and of microfinance in general.

Types of measures[]


Other issues[]

Inequality

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