Examine the argument that poverty is best explained in terms of personal moral failings

Though poverty deals with the lack of possessions or the inability to do the things that are considered "normal", the word "normal" depends on the society in which the person lives. The usual accepted indicator of third world poverty is the number of people living on an income of less than $1 per day, and is termed "absolute income poverty". As this indicator would be inappropriate for use in the UK and the developed world the …showed first 75 words of 1460 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1460 total…sleeping rough or in bed and breakfast accommodation", so perhaps we should add these too. The World development Report ends on the note "If our strategy goes as planned, with the help of all the different parties, with the poor being the most active, then the world has a really good chance of eliminating poverty." With the list of those at risk of living in poverty increasing all we can do is wait and see.