ON POVERTY

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definition 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.
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 ...

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especially where the market-economy was settled strongly and have political power, do not except, the mode of production and poverty are closely related to each other. To see clearly this relationship and provide better understanding for causes of poverty, historical framework should be drawn and these concepts must be evaluated within this framework.

Historical Framework
Although poverty has been existent at every stage of history of human beings, I will make my historical analysis by dealing with more about the stages after "enclosure movement" in England.
As we know in the very early stages of history, human beings lived as a colonies and tried to survive by collecting things ...

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