If sufficient income is not earned to buy food and other needs to get the calories
intake, is explained as absolute poverty.
Relative poverty is caused by inequal distribution of income.
Two sides of Poverty
Income poverty
Consumption poverty
Basic Poverty
If one cannot earn income which is sufficient to provide basic needs and minimum consumption level it is called basic poverty.
Human Poverty
According to the definition of the U.N.O. the situation that deprived people of
choosing opportunities to live a happy, healthy life with freedom, self esteem,
recognition in the society is termed as human poverty.
National Poverty line
The minimum expenditure needed to get food and non-food items in order to survive and to maintain a good behaviour is called national poverty line.
