Poverty is understood and defined by people in many ways.
It further clarifies that the poor are poor because they lack enough income and resources to live adequately by their accepted living standards of their community. The former definition is that of absolute poverty whereas the other appears to be a relative poverty definition. It is like, among two similarly placed villages, one becomes poor because the other village has access to transportation. Another definition of poverty is called textbook poverty, notions of which are inherited through western education. On another account, poverty is a result of the sustained gap between the income and expenditure in the household account, the latter exceeding the former.