Inequality: The Five Dimensions Of Poverty

‘Poverty’ it is about people being unable to meet their basic human needs. Most often this is due to lack of opportunity in a society marked by oppression and injustice which has led to disempowerment (Merriam-Webster, 2013). ‘Inequality’ is the condition of being unequal; lack of equality, social or economic disparity.
This essay will elaborate on the five dimensions of how professionals’ universal, reductionist and standardized views of poverty differ from those of the poor themselves. It will illustrate how poor people’s criteria differ from those assumed for them by professionals, also the neglected dimensions of deprivation including vulnerability, seasonality, powerlessness and humiliation.
The interlocking factors which are vast may be, ‘ignorance’ which means the lack of information or lack of knowledge, ‘disease’ when a community has a high disease rate, absenteeism is high, productivity is low, and less wealth is created. ‘Apathy’ is when people do not care, or when they feel so powerless that they do not try change things, to right a wrong, to fix a mistake, or to improve conditions. ‘Dishonesty’ is when resources that are intended to be used for community services or facilities, are diverted into the private packets of someone in a position of power, there …show more content…
Poverty refers to lack of physical necessities, assets and income. Poverty can be distinguished from other dimensions of deprivation such as physical weakness, isolation, vulnerability and powerlessness. This shows how vast poverty is and how the factors tend to interlock with each other and contribute to the society as a whole. Furthermore it has come to the point where the challenges have not yet been overcome because resources to regain the damage are not available solutions are hardly brought forward mainly because everything is blamed on the other (Chambers,