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Poverty |
As we suggest in the book there is no single, universally-agreed, definition of poverty (like income it is a contested concept) - which does, of course, make the task of defining poverty a difficult one. What we have instead is a variety of possible definitions - some of which emphasise it's absolute nature, some its relative nature and yet others which include notions of social exclusion that, in some ways, combine aspects of the two definitions. These different types of definition reflect both the different agendas and perceptions of those doing the defining (questions of poverty are, essentially, moral questions) and, of course, the way we identify and perceive different types of need (biological and / or cultural, for example). |
