Yes, What Is Poverty? Fig 1.1 Sounds a bit odd isn’t, asking an ‘easy question’ Of course poverty can easily be described depending on who you ask and in what condition you ask them. A common response might be that poverty is the absence of sufficient money, or inability to provide basic human needs, or in a national level-when the average citizen barely survives through the day. These answers might stand and instead of featuring the many responses we can get from asking people, what exactly is poverty? What has the world collectively been doing to combat poverty? Whose responsibility is it to eradicate poverty? Was any nation born rich? These are just a few questions circling around the term poverty and some people have tried to measure poverty with the hope that if the right measurement is gotten, that a formula can be sprouted around it to attempt curbing poverty. The outcome of those measurements hasn’t really been doing mu...