According to the United Nations, poverty is defined as the inability to access opportunities and basic human needs like food, water, shelter, and education. The document discusses two main types of poverty: absolute poverty which is severe deprivation of basic needs, and relative poverty which considers social inclusion and equality of opportunity. The case study of El Salvador is presented, where over 45% of the population lives in poverty according to CEPAL, one of the highest rates in Latin America. The document concludes that if El Salvador had addressed poverty as a main problem through social programs, the issue may not have increased as much over time.

1. IN E L SALVADOR
POVERTY

2. FIRST…
ACCORDING TO UNITED NATIONS
POVERTY is the inability of getting choices and
opportunities, a violation of human dignity. It means
lack of basic capacity to participate in society.
Nonetheless, it means not having enough to feed and
clothe a family, not having a school or clinic to go to,
not having the land on which to grow one’s food or a
job to earn one’s living, not having access to credit.

3. TYPE S OF POVERTY

4. From several author around the world, there are two
main type of poverty:
1- Adsolute poverty.
Condition characterized by severe deprivation of
basic human needs, including food, safe drinking
water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education
and information. It depends not only on income but
also on access to services.
2-Relative poverty.
Reflects better the cost of social inclusion and
equality of opportunity in a specific time and space

5. THE CASE OF EL SALVADOR

6. From several authors and Worlwide Bank. Some
countries could have the two kind of poverty. One case
is El Salvador.
To ilustrate it, “La Prensa Gráfica” newspaper shared the
following informantion:
They researched that 45.3% of the Salvadoran
population lives in poverty (according to Comisión
Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)).
Even though, the level of poverty in El Salvador is one of
the highest in Latin America. Also, the poverty affects
mainly children.
(These information was published in 2013)

7. TO SUM UP
Finally with the case of El Salvador, we could share
that if the topic of poverty in our country had been
seen like a main problem, we wouldn´t have been
developed the poverty so much.
Though social programs or another activities the
goberment could improve this problem. Due to that,
we can add too that if social programs were
developed by the goverment several years ago, they
would not be worked with another new ideas to
improve it.