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