Sociology › Section J · Global inequality › Topic J.2
Global wealth and poverty
Hundreds of millions of people still live on less than $3 a day, while others feel poor because they cannot keep up with their neighbours. This topic sorts out the different meanings of poverty, how it is measured worldwide, who is poor, and why poverty tends to reproduce itself.
In this topic
- What does it mean to be poor?
- Relative, extreme and subjective poverty
- The international poverty line
- Worked example: life on the line
- Where the poorest live
- Multidimensional poverty
- Worked example: scoring deprivation
- The global feminisation of poverty
- The informal economy
- Why poverty persists
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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