Britain's system for the poor and their development experience

As the longest history of a social phenomenon, poverty is the economic, social and cultural poverty of the general term for the phenomenon. First of all, it refers to the economic aspects of material life of poverty, that is, in substance, or lack of resources in a situation of deprivation, which can not meet the typical characteristics of the basic needs of life. According to the different levels of poverty, poverty can be divided into absolute poverty and relative poverty in two broad categories. The absolute poverty (also known as the survival of poverty), refers to a certain social modes of production and way of life, individuals and families rely on their labor income and other legitimate income could not sustain their basic survival needs, that is what we normally The "hungry, clothing Zheti not, do not live in sheltered cold". And compared with developed countries, developing countries today face the problem of poverty is the main problem is poverty. As the world's most populous and large developing country with uneven development, not only in our country for a long period of history will be relatively widespread poverty, but so far there are still outstanding issues in absolute poverty. According to the Poverty Alleviation Office of the State Council in September 2006 to the latest information released by the end of 2005 China's population is still living in absolute poverty 23,650,000, if the reference to "abject poverty" of international standards, our daily income of less than 1 U.S. dollars of the population is more than 100,000,000 .

For a long time living in absolute poverty are problems of human social and economic development of the "stumbling block" and thus anti-poverty today remains the world's top priority. Anti-poverty in human history, the Western countries in modern times to carry out before and after a considerable relief of poverty. These government-led, anti-poverty establishment of the social relief system of absolute poverty and their families given financial or material assistance to ensure that they maintain a basic living condition of the country, the most representative of the United Kingdom.