Subjective Poverty And Poverty

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Background of the Study
It has been reported that 151,600 people die each day, fifteen percent of this are due to poverty-related cases and most of them are children below 5 years of age (Central Intelligence Agency, 2013). Poverty is said to exist when people lack the means to satisfy their basic needs (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2013). In this context, Ford (2013) explained that poverty is a multidimensional index that can provide a more distinct picture. Supported by Bell (2013), poverty is composed of various dimensions, subjectively present when individual’s actual income does not meet one’s expectations. The cause are numerous, including lack of individual accountability, bad government strategy, exploitation by the general public and business with supremacy and influence or some combination of these and other factor (Abramsky, 2011).

Nandori (2010) illuminated that subjective poverty concept can be reflected by subjective well-being. It refers to the group of individuals’ attitude with regards to how poor they are, how they recognize their position in relation to others in ...

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