Absolute poverty

Definition:

• Developing societies - subsistance poverty meaning that the poor lack necessities like food and clean water
• A type of measurement of poverty - used in early days of research where sociologists attempted the income of each household

Charles booth:

• 'Father of modern poverty studies'
• 1889-1903 - street-by-street survey of East and Inner London - calculated numerical extent of poverty
• Concluded that 31% of people in the districts were living in poverty
• First researcher to apply an absolute approach to the study of poverty
• Created the…