JPIC

Poverty: UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2001): Poverty is a sustained or chronic deprivation of resources, capabilities, choices, security and power necessary for the enjoyment of an adequate standard of living and other civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights.

Poverty World Bank (2000): Poverty is a serious deprivation of the well-being of people. Well-being may be linked to a) access and control of commodities, b) a specific type of consumption, c) capability of the individual to function in society.