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What is Poverty?

Poverty can be defined as hunger, a lack of shelter, being sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is not having access to school and not knowing how to read. Poverty is not having a job, is fear for the future, living one day at a time. Poverty is losing a child to illness brought about by unclean water. Poverty is powerlessness, lack of representation and freedom.

To know what helps to reduce poverty, what works and what doesn’t, what changes over time, poverty has to be defined, measured studied and even experienced.

Currently there are about 1.4 billion people in the developing world (one in four) living on less than $1.25.

Click here to here to visit the Human Development Report website and download the 2007-2008 report for more information.