Poverty

Poverty is described as a state in which one lacks the fundamental provisions of life. These comprise shelter, food, water, lack of dignity and education. The rough sharing of poverty at a variety of scales, from the global to the household, via the national, regional, and local, suggests the importance of geographic factors in explaining its prevalence and understanding its nature. Poverty in United States of America is unique in nature with 13-17% Americans live below the poverty line in America. Of course, significant variations exist within regions and nations. Similarly, in USA too poverty rates are usually higher in rural areas, a large and a growing number of poor people live in urbanized areas, with a significant degree of concentration and clustering in separate neighborhoods and informal settlements.

The idea of Poverty explains an empirical reality, both globally and in individual societies, but the meaning of which is contested. What comprises poverty depends on how it is defined and measured. The major debates around definition concern the role of material resources, in particular income, and whether poverty should be understood in absolute or relative terms. The nature of the debates differs according to context, in particular that of the global South or North. (Chuck, 15-30)

Poverty has a huge influence on socio economic unjust. According to Pope John Paul II, “If the endeavor is globalization exclusive of marginalization, we can no longer bear the globe in which, we live alongside the enormously miserably poor and vital rich people, the have-nots poor still of basics and masses that are inconsiderately fritter away, which is needed by other desperately. Such countries are causing offence to the magnificence and splendor of the human and creature.” Moreover, he said that, “Ethics assert that system, and schemes are familiar with the obligations of operate (man), ...