"Whilst recognizing the need for standardization in discussing poverty across time and space and between different social categories, it sometimes becomes necessary to use more than one notion of poverty to further our understanding of the effects of deprivation on other social variables"

(a) How should poverty be defined?

(b) What are the different kinds of poverty that we have? How to deal with each of them?

(c) How do people who are born and have been brought-up in poverty look at society and social life?

(d) To what extent do you agree to the assertion that women are more affected by poverty?