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What is poverty?(Society)
MOST COMMENTATORS will tell you that poverty should be defined and measured relative to the living standards of specific societies. This means that "poverty" in Africa is very different from "poverty" in Australia. To be poor in Africa means you are starving; to be poor in Australia means you cannot afford to eat out at a restaurant.
There is an obvious problem, however, in defining poverty in this way, for it swiftly becomes indistinguishable from inequality. Conceptually, the two terms are quite distinct: poverty means not having enough; inequality means not having as much as somebody else does. But once poverty is defined relatively, this distinction gets ...
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