Fri, 16 Jun 2017 12:46:54 +0000 By Prof Eustarckio Kazonga There are many definitions of poverty. These definitions basically differ in terms of sociological, developmental, or economical philosophical underpinning. Some writers on poverty have defined poverty to include any type of major deprivation, whether material lack of specific goods and services or more intangible lack of access to good quality jobs. According to the Business Dictionary, poverty is defined as a condition where people’s basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter are not being met. A woman once said: “Some people express poverty as pain and it feels like a disease. It attacks a person not only materially but also morally. It eats away one’s dignity and drives one into total despair”. Poverty is generally in two forms. One of these is absolute poverty and is usually associated with destitution and occurs when people cannot obtain adequate resources and the other one is relative poverty, […]
