Key-Definitions-Group-15

__**What is Poverty?**__ If you live in Poverty, then this means that you do not have enough money to buy basic, essential items such as food, clothing, water and shelter. Poverty is developing mainly in LEDC's such as Africa and Asia.

The Poverty Threshold is the amount of daily income deemed sufficient, in order to live with basic needs. If you live below the poverty threshhold, then you are said to be living in poverty.
 * __Poverty Threshhold__**


 * __There are different sub divisions of poverty:__**

If your income is below the poverty threshold, and you can not afford basic things, then this means that you live in absolute poverty. It doesn't only depend on daily income, but on the services that are available. If you are deprived of two or more of the following, then you are said to live in absolute poverty. Relative poverty is when individual circumstances of a person determine if they are poor or not. If you live in relative poverty, then this means that you are poor compared to other members of society and do not have things (e.g a telephone or a car) that they do. It does not necessarily mean that you live in poverty, as there may be someone else in your society who lives in relative poverty compared to you.
 * __Absolute Poverty__**
 * food
 * safe drinking water
 * access to benefits
 * education
 * shelter
 * health
 * information
 * sanitation facilities
 * __Relative Poverty__**

Short term solutions are immediate things that help people in need, for a short period of time. For example, after natural disasters, people are left without food and water, so providing them with this would be a short-term solution.
 * __Short-term solutions__**

A long-term solution is help that will take effect not immedietly, but gradually, and will help in the future. For example, educating people living in poverty will help them in the future when they are looking jobs, and then they can make money and take care of them selves.
 * __Long-term solutions__**

LEDC means less economically developed country.
 * __What is an LEDC?__**

More economically developed country.
 * __What is an MEDC?__**