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Absolute Poverty is when people do not have enough money to meet the basic threshold that is needed for survival. People fall below this line and do not have enough money to buy food, shelter, clothing etc. that is needed for survival.
Relative Poverty is when people are poor when compared to others around them, but may still have enough money to survive. It is based on the cultural environment around them, not on a basic amount necessary for all humans to survive.
According to relative poverty, if you live in an expensive neighborhood, and you have everything you need to get by, but do not own luxurious things, you could still be said to be in poverty when compared to the people around you, even though you have everything you need. Relative poverty changes more often and adjusts to the changes in society (food and housing becoming more expensive in certain areas, more jobs etc.) whereas absolute poverty stays the same, and this could be problematic for absolute poverty, when comparing neighborhoods that differ, and when you compare cross-nationally.
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TaigaRelative Poverty, like relative morality and relative location, is measured by it's relation to other conditions. In the case of poverty, relative poverty is an individual's level of poverty based on that of others. Absolute poverty is poverty level regardless of other's conditions. An example of absolute poverty would be many of the citizens of Detroit, who make little to no incomes, and live below the national poverty line. They are poor no matter who they are compared to. Relative poverty could be exemplified by a middle class individual who lives in a very wealthy, high-priced city with a high cost of living. The individual's income may be substantial, but compared to that of neighbors, and compared to the cost of products, the individual is poor.
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Difference between absolute and relative poverty?
relative poverty depends on what era or social group you come from like if a grandama thinks it okay to give a baby alcohol to make him sleeo nowadays we would think that is wrong, absolute morality is when something is stricktly right or wrong so you should NEVER kill is absoulute morality.
What is the difference between relative poverty and relative deprivation?
Poverty is generally considered to be a lack of money. Deprivation is a lack of opportunity, access to health care, access to safe environments, adequate protection from harm and a lack of resources (e.g. shops and infrastructure).
Is there poverty in Spain?
There certainly is poverty in Spain, however because Spain is a developed country only relative poverty similar to that found in otherwise western countries. Also Spains welfare system will act as a safety net to ensure there is no absolute poverty
How many people live in absolute poverty?
About 775,00 live in absolute poverty.duh
There are 4 ways of measuring poverty Those are 1 Headcount index 2 Total poverty gap 3 average poverty gap and 4 normalized Poverty gap How are they useful in measuring poverty and is there any diffe?
You're really mixed up eh? Works like this. - Yp is absolute poverty (relative term meaning insufficient daily funds to meet basic human needs) - H is headcount, amount of people below poverty gap. - We use these two to measure a very large amount of values, APG being the most useless imo. - TPG: Total amount of daily income required to pull those in absolute poverty to the required minimum. Sum of (I don't know how to write sigma for you statisticians) (Yp-Yi) so the sum of the difference between each individual and the poverty gap -APG: TPG/N, so just the total poverty gap spread over the population, seems stupid to me. -NPG: APG/Yp so the average poverty gap normalized with the poverty gap, always gives a value between 0 and 1 so this is usefull to compare countries. - AIS: Average income shortfall, this ones usefull. TPG/H, spread over the poor rather than the entire population. Its how much, on average, each absolutely impoverished individual requires to escape to the minimum level of absolute poverty. -NIS: Normalized Income shortfall, AIS/Yp, again normalized to ease comparison. Theres also the oft used Foster0Greer-Thorbecke indexe, measurements of inequality among absolute poverty using CV or Gini concentration ratio and the human poverty index but those are all bitches to write out so look em up yourself.
