The usual definitions of poverty are based on lack of money, and annual income is the measure most commonly used. There are two general approaches defining poverty: the absolute approach and the relative approach.

The absolute approach holds that a certain amount of goods and services are essential to and individual. Those who do not have this minimum amount are viewed as poor. But there is a problem with this approach because our definition

* Poor provide an opportunity for others to practise their sacred duty of helping the less fortunate.

In most of the European countries and in the other parts the world; the absolute approach is used in defining poverty. The poverty line defined and this line is raised each year according to inflation. However, one way or another there are many individuals and families suffering from poverty independent from in what way you define them. And the main concerns of us should be the reasons of it and the problems of poor even the invisible causes and invisible problems. There are too many simple, logical causes of poverty. These causes are derived from the statistics of government. Because of the fact that poverty and social problems are closely related to each other in dialectical relationship. The surveys, which were done for another purpose, can be used for poverty. There are number of possible causes of being poor;

of a minimum acceptable standard of living is itself likely to change over time. The relative approach, on the other hand, states that a person is poor when his or her income is substantially less than the average income of the population. With this approach poverty will persist as long income inequality exists. The weakness of this approach is that it tells us nothing about how badly, or how well, the people at the bottom of the income distribution actually live. When we deal with poverty we should know how many people are poor and how desperate conditions they live in.

"... poverty will be the portion of large numbers of the working class whilst the land and wealth of the country are privately owned and industry is carried on for profit.We assert that only when the land is decreed the common property of the nation, when the wealth created by the people shall belong to the people, and when industry is organised and controlled by the people in their collective capacity, will poverty be banished and the Poor Law or

* There are unpleasant jobs no one else wants to do.

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