Poverty

Poverty is the state of being without the necessities of daily living, often associated with need, hardship and lack of resources across a wide range of circumstances. For some, poverty is a subjective and comparative term; for others, it is moral and evaluative; and for others, scientifically established. The principal uses of the term include:

External links

• Borgen Project Global effort to make poverty the number one priority of U.S. political leaders.
• Make Poverty History — Campaign dealing with fighting poverty.
• Poverty — The Development Gateway community portal on Poverty is a comprehensive collection of articles, reports, data, statistics, projects and other resources.
• PovertyNet — PovertyNet from The World Bank Group provides an introduction to key issues as well as in-depth information on poverty measurement, monitoring, analysis, and on poverty reduction strategies for researchers and practitioners.
• Center for Global Development — The Center for Global Development is a Washington, D.C. policy center pursuing research-based, actionable ideas for the fight against global poverty.
• LookSmart — Poverty Issues directory category
• Open Directory Project — Poverty Issues directory category
• Yahoo! — Poverty Issues and Causes directory category
• The Anti-Poverty Campaign
• 2010: Poverty Elimination proposes a nine-step poverty elimination plan. The first global campaign for poverty elimination which changed the common goal of "poverty reduction" to "poverty elimination". A work published for free in internet with a similar Wikipedia method with the contibution and the approval of more of 200.000 people, translated in several languages and that more than 25 milion people read.
• International Disability and Development Consortium Network of NGOs and disability organisations
• Graph of US Poverty US Census
• UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty commemorated annually, throughout the world on 17 October