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| Different people think about poverty in different
ways. Some people think that poverty is about being able to buy and sell
but other people think about getting a fair share of education and health
care or about being given respect, and having some influence over what
happens in their life. Because of these differences it is useful to think
about two main types of poverty - income poverty and non-income poverty |
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Income poverty happens when a household takes
in less than one US dollar per day. This means that people will not have
enough food or medicine and they will have poor clothes and houses. Income
poverty is due to people not having access to money or other assets. If
people do not have any other assets like land to grow their own food, then
income poverty can result in stunted growth and early death.
The best way to reduce income poverty is to encourage
and support the development of effective businesses (small, medium and
large) which make good use of our natural resources and talents to create
wealth and jobs |
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Non income poverty happens when people may
have a little bit of money but otherwise the quality of their life is not
good. They do not have access to affordable social and physical services
(schooling, health care, medicines, safe water, good sanitation, good
transport) and they may not feel safe in their homes either because they
cannot trust the authorities or because they belong to some particularly
vulnerable group
The best way to reduce non-income poverty it to make
sure that people have access to affordable and good quality social
services and infrastructure, that they feel secure in their homes, that
they trust the authorities and, if they are vulnerable, that there are
safety net programmes to protect them
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