Absolute poverty

Poverty is also called the survival of absolute poverty. Refers to certain social modes of production and way of life, the individuals and families rely on their labor income and other legitimate income could not sustain their basic survival needs, so that individuals or families on poor people or poor call. From the production side, the labor shortage of the material conditions of reproduction, it is difficult to maintain the simple reproduction of its own, producers can only shrink reproduction; from the consumer side, people can not be satisfied clothing, food, shelter and other basic needs of human life the minimum conditions that is often said that the "hungry, clothing does not, housing is not sheltered cold" situation. In accordance with international standards, the daily income of less than 1 U.S. dollars of man-made absolute poverty; different countries have different national conditions due to its slightly different standards, such as China's standard 0.7 U.S. dollars a day income is less than man-made absolute poverty.

The concept of poverty

Relative poverty and poverty. Poverty is a social phenomenon of material life, spiritual life of poverty is a social phenomenon, which refers to the concept of spiritual life or lack of no way out.

Such as: 'the philosophy of poverty', 'proletarian poverty' and so on. Poverty is a complex and simple phenomenon. It complicated, because until now, the meaning of poverty and its measurement to determine, in the middle and scholars are still debating, and that such arguments seem to be increasingly complicated. But from another perspective, poverty very simple, because you are in terms of definition on what kind of controversy, the poor are in a simple and objective manner exist.

Therefore we can say that poverty is above all a material life, but poverty is not only a simple material life. At the same time poverty is a phenomenon of the social structure.

Poverty due to unmet needs of scrutiny. There is no demand, no poverty; and not look the same do not know poverty.

Poverty is a very complex issue, in accordance with the general theory of economics, poverty is the economic, social and cultural phenomenon of poverty and backwardness of the term. But first of all is the economic dimension of poverty, that is, the material life of poverty, defined as a person or a family's standard of living less than a socially acceptable minimum standards. The existence of poverty in the history and reality have a double reason, therefore, poverty is a historic area. According to different criteria for the classification of poverty can be divided into different types. Such as absolute and relative poverty, survival type of poverty, food and clothing-poverty and development-based poverty, regional-based poverty and individual type of poverty, urban poverty and rural poverty, narrow the poverty and generalized poverty and so on.

1998 Nobel laureate in economics Amartya. Sen believes that the true meaning of poverty is a poverty-stricken population the ability to generate income and opportunities for the poor, poverty means that poor people lack access and the ability to enjoy a normal life!

Rountree and Booth 1901 in the author's view that: "a certain number of goods and services for individuals and families in the survival and well-being necessary, the lack of access to these goods and services or economic resources or financial capacity of the living conditions of people and families, is poverty. "