### condition | poverty:

Abject poverty
* is no contraceptive.
* makes right moral conduct impossible for all but exceptional individuals.

Absolute poverty
* is associated with deforestation, soil erosion and water pollution
  - non-existent in Brunei and Singapore
  - to be contrasted with relative poverty
* means poor diets and malnourishment.

### condition | poverty:

Child poverty
* Most child poverty is created in the labour market by low wages.
* becomes an extension of family poverty.
* increases the risks of low educational attainment, abuse and neglect and poor health.
* is an extension of family poverty
  - bad for children, bad for their families and bad for Canada
  - higher in rural areas
  - highly concentrated geographically
  - seen as both a social and a political problem
  - strongly self-perpetuating
  - the result of family poverty
* major issue throughout the world.
* occurs in all geographic regions of America.
* reduces the lifetime worker output.
* reflection of parental poverty.
* scar on the soul of Britain.

Eradication of poverty
* is essential for sustainable human settlements.
* requires enhanced economic growth and employment opportunities.

Extreme poverty
* affects two-thirds of the population.
* is about a lack of opportunities
  - characteristic of nearly all of southern Mexico
* ravages the lives of one person in four in the developing world.
* threatens health and well-being and therefore threatens employability.

Indigence
* are poverty.
* is poverty
* means poverty.

Poverty alleviation
* ameliorates gender pressures.
* daunting task facing the global economy.
* is important, as is reform of the international financial system.
* key to fighting hunger and malnutrition.

### condition | poverty:

Rural poverty
* is by far higher than urban poverty
  - greater than urban poverty
  - likely to be multi-generational and characterized by fatalism and hopelessness
  - more likely to be on an annual cycle as in the case of seasonal farm workers
  - often hidden Rural poverty exists within larger affluent areas
  - particularly deep, while unemployment in urban areas is endemic
  - prevalent in some areas
  - the most endemic and corrosive form of poverty in the world
* matches the worst of the third world.

Urban poverty
* appears to have declined at twice the rate of poverty in rural areas.
* concerns a physical place in our society that quite literally has been left behind.
* continues to grow, even if the majority of poor still live in rural areas.
* has many causes.
* is also a big social problem.
* specific form of poverty.

Want
* are the drives of all human action
  - form taken by human needs as they are shaped by culture and individual personality
* exist at an animal level.
  * People often talk about needing a thing, when they really just want it. Wants can be for the same things as needs. For example, a person can 'need' to eat food and can 'want' to eat cake. If there is no cake then he or she may have to eat something else, perhaps bread. If there is cake, then the person's needs and wants can both be met.

Widespread poverty
* inhibits the full and effective enjoyment of human rights.
* means that people have less money to buy goods and services from other countries.