“What is poverty?”
By Taufik Indrakesuma, on January 9th, 2012
The ATM team presents our newest video, simply entitled “What is poverty?”
The team interviewed students and staff from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy to asked them how they would define poverty. Their varied responses showed that poverty is difficult to define. This is important to keep in mind when evaluating a country or city’s poverty alleviation efforts, because the policy is undoubtedly colored by the policy maker’s perception of poverty.
As usual, tell us your thoughts on the comment section!
This really helps to drive home how contextual poverty is. It goes beyond the developing world, too. There are many different ways for even the rich among us to be barred from pursuit of the life qualities that some of your respondents mention – happiness, opportunities to realize their potential… Physical poverty is more a developing-world issue than a developed-world issue, but poverty broadly defined is a human issue.
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