Poverty is given to understand how the situation affects people who lack the necessary sustenance of their lives, ie they can not satisfy basic needs. We are facing a multidimensional concept, not only includes economic aspects without also includes non-material and environmental aspects.
In other words, poverty means not having the opportunity to live a long life, healthy, enjoying and creative freedom, dignity, financial markets crisis, natural disasters, management of inappropriate or improper environment ambientutilització natural resources by man.
The United Nations Program for Development presented the World Report 1997, a human poverty index, the IPH, that its goal was to include the different characteristics of deprivation of quality of life. This index takes into account the following variables:
-Percentage of population with life expectancy less than 40 years;
-Percentage of illiterate adults;
-Percentage of people without access to health services and potable water;
Percentage of children under-five victims of malnutrition.
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