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Can we equate ‘poverty’ with ‘poor living’? Elaborate your answer.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Stratification and Mobility

Poor living describes a low material standard of life: bad housing, a thin diet, no sanitation. Poverty is a sociological condition. It means lacking the resources and freedoms that a society treats as necessary, and it usually brings powerlessness and exclusion with it. The two overlap, but they cannot be equated.

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