Types of Poverty
a) Income poverty : Low productivity, Malnutrition, Food insecurity, access to financial institution, Un employment, lack of opportunity.
b) Human poverty : Physical ability, laziness, disease.
c) Structural poverty : Rules, act, guideline, culture, norms, value.
A new approach of poverty alleviation
- From Quantitative to Qualitative
- Poor’s own criteria of poverty and their solution
- Policy implication- enabling the poor to exercise their institutions/agencies/organization
- Making critical external resources available to exercise their own solution
- Empowerment for poverty elimination
- Recognition of gender and exclusion nature of poverty