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-poverty is about not having enough money to meet basic needs including
food, clothing and shelter. However, poverty is more, much more than
just not having enough money. Poverty can classified into absolute and
relative poverty
Absolute poverty -refers to when a person or household does not have the
minimum amount of income needed to meet the minimum living
requirements needed over an extended period of time. Relative poverty,
on other hand, when poverty is measured in relative terms, such as
income or consumption of other people, it is called relative poverty
-inequalities are fundamentally about relational disparities denial of fair
and equivalent enjoyment of rights ,and the persistence of arbitrary
discrepancies in worth, status, dignity and freedoms of different people.