Poverty is defined as a lack of basic human needs like food, water, shelter, clothing, healthcare and education. Absolute poverty refers to not being able to afford basic resources for survival, while relative poverty is defined within a given context or society. Over 1 billion people live on less than $1.25 per day, and poverty disproportionately impacts those in rural areas and developing countries. Poverty can be addressed through government programs that generate employment, improve education, infrastructure and social services, and promote sustainable development.

1. Neptune house
Class VIII

2. WHAT IS POVERTY?
 Poverty is the state of one who lacks a certain
amount of material possessions or money.
 People all over the world are dying because they
cannot afford the necessary resources they need
to survive.
 Absolute poverty or destitution refers to the
deprivation of basic human needs, which
commonly includes food, water, sanitation,
clothing, shelter, health care and education.
 Relative poverty is defined contextually
as economic inequality in the location or society
in which people live.

3. PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION LIVING IN LESS
THAN $1/DAY ACROSS THE WORLD.

4. WHAT DOES POVERTY MEAN?
 Lack of shelter.
 Lack of food.
 Lack of education.
 Lack of basic transportation.
 Lack of ability to pay off debts.
 Lack of good health and
medical infrastructure.

5. HOW IS POVERTY MEASURED?
 When measured, poverty may be absolute or
relative poverty.
 Absolute poverty refers to a set standard which
is consistent over time and between countries.
An example of an absolute measurement
would be the percentage of the population
eating less food than is required to sustain the
human body.
 Relative poverty, in contrast, views poverty as
socially defined and dependent on social
context. One relative measurement would be
to compare the total wealth of the poorest
one-third of the population with the total
wealth of the richest 1% of the population.

6. HOW IS POVERTY MEASURED ? CONTD…
 The main poverty line used in the OECD and
the European Union is a relative poverty measure based
on "economic distance", a level of income usually set at
60% of the median household income.
 Both absolute and relative poverty measures are usually
based on a person's yearly income and frequently take
no account of total wealth. Some people argue that this
ignores a key component of economic well-being.
 Economic aspects of poverty focus on material
needs, typically including the necessities of daily
living, such as food, clothing, shelter, or safe drinking
water. Poverty in this sense may be understood as a
condition in which a person or community is lacking in
the basic needs for a minimum standard of well-being
and life, particularly as a result of a persistent lack of
income.

7.  Do you know the world population is 7 billion out
of which-
 1.4 billion people in developing countries live on
$1.25 a day or less.
 Rural areas account for three out of every four
people living on less than $1.25 a day.
 22,000 children die each day due to conditions of
poverty.
 8 million people die from lack of food and
nutrition every year - about 24,000 deaths each
day.

8.  1/6 of our population is starving.
 There are 936 million people who do not have
enough to eat.
 1.4 billion people in developing countries live
on $1.25 a day or less.
 Rural areas account for three out of every four
people living on less than $1.25 a day.
 22,000 children die each day due to conditions
of poverty.

9.  60 percent of the world's hungry are women.
 50 percent of pregnant women in developing
countries lack proper maternal care, resulting in
over 300,000 maternal deaths annually from
childbirth.
 1 out of 6 infants are born with a low birth weight in
developing countries.
 Malnutrition is the key factor contributing to more
than one-third of all global child deaths resulting in
2.6 million deaths per year.
 A third of all childhood death in sub-Saharan Africa
is caused by hunger.
 Every five seconds, a child dies from hunger-related
diseases.

10.  870 million people do not have enough to eat -
-more than the populations of USA and the
European Union combined.
 98% of the world's undernourished people live
in developing countries.
 Two-thirds of the world's hungry live in just 7
countries: Bangladesh, China, the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, India,
Indonesia and Pakistan.

11.  35 million people are living with HIV/AIDS.
 65 percent of young people living with
HIV/AIDS are women.
 90 percent of all children and 60 percent of all
women living with HIV are in sub-Saharan
Africa.
 More than 11 million children die each year
from preventable health issues such as
malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia.

12.  75 percent of the world's poorest people — 1.4
billion women, children, and men — live in rural
areas and depend on agriculture and related
activities for their livelihood.
 50 percent of hungry people are farming
families.
 1.7 billion people lack access to clean water.
 2.3 billion people suffer from water-borne
diseases each year.
 12 percent of the world's population uses 85
percent of its water, and none of the 12
percent lives in developing countries.

13. HOW POVERTY CAN BE ERADICATED THROUGH
GOVERNMENT AND SOCIAL ACTIONS.
 Generating more employment.
 Raising the level of minimum education.
 Making the social elite aware of the possibility of
removing it.
 Presenting the government concrete programs of
prosperity.
 Drawing upon the resources of every social institution like
Chamber of Commerce, university, research institutions,
government, voluntary organization, U.N., U.N. agencies,
press, etc.
 Educating the public opinion that poverty is not
inevitable.
 By improving the social services delivery mechanism to
the population of the country.

14. HOW POVERTY CAN BE ERADICATED THROUGH
GOVERNMENT AND SOCIAL ACTIONS.
 By improving regional equality & harmony.
 By driving programs to restore sustainable
growth in the incomes of the poor.
 By building strong social and economic
infrastructure.
 By enhancing skill development of population
to make them employable in
industries/manufacturing/services sector.
 By use public resources more efficiently.

15. HOW POVERTY CAN BE ERADICATED THROUGH
GOVERNMENT AND SOCIAL ACTIONS.
 Integrated Rural Development Programme
(IRDP).
 National Rural Employment Programme (NREP).
 Rural Landless Employment Guarantee
Programme (RLEGP).
 Jawahar Rozgar Yojna.
 Training of Rural Youth for Self-Employment.
 Development of Women and Children.
 Drought Prone Area Programme.
 Desert Development Programme.
 Minimum Needs Programme.

16. HOW POVERTY CAN BE ERADICATED THROUGH
GOVERNMENT AND SOCIAL ACTIONS.
 Employment Exchanges.
 Employment Guarantee Scheme.
 Development of Animal Husbandry and
Agriculture.
 Employment Assurance Scheme.
 Prime Minister's Rozgar Yojana (PMRY).
 Prime Minister's Integrated Urban Poverty
Eradication Program (PMIUPEP).
 Self-Employment Programmes.
 The Swaran Jayanti Rozgar Yojana.

17. HOW POVERTY CAN BE ERADICATED…(CONTD.)
 Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana
 Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana (PMGY).
 Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana (Gramin
Awas).
 Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana-Rural
Drinking Water Project.
 Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY).
 Autyodya Anna Yojana.
 Jai Parkesh Rozgar Guarantee Yojana
(JPRGY).
 Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana (VAMBAY).