Sebastián Cobos 64151148

Alejandro Pineda 64151179

Daniel Rodríguez 64151258

POVERTY
Context
Approach to the problem
Poverty is a situation or way of life that arises as a result of the impossibility of access or lack
of resources to satisfy the basic physical and mental human needs that affect a level of
deterioration in the level and quality of life of people, such as food, housing, education,
health care or access to drinking water. Other people take Poverty as the lack of necessary
resources to satisfy the needs of a specific population or group of people, without having the
capacity and opportunity to produce those necessary resources. Without a doubt, poverty is
relative and measured in different ways. The definition of poverty requires a prior analysis of
the general socioeconomic situation of each area or region, and of the cultural patterns that
express the dominant lifestyle in it. It is from there where this problem arises, which is the
true notion of poverty, which is understood, what the cause.
Question
Justification
Concepts
There are varied notions about the meaning of poverty. It starts as a complex and
multidimensional situation. Due to the above there are multiple definitions and ways to
measure it and each country has a standard to calculate it. A very common definition of
poverty is material deprivation, measured by the income or consumption of the individual or
family.
For ECLAC, extreme poverty or indigence is understood as the situationin which resources
are not available to meet at least the basic needs of food. In other words, people who reside
in households whose incomes are not enough to acquire a basic food basket are considered
"extremely poor", so they will allocate it in their entirety for that purpose. At the same time,
total poverty is understood as the situation in which the income is lower than the value of a
basic basket of goods and services, both food and non-food.
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