What is Poverty?
{{No sources|date=December 2024}} [[File:Jakarta slumlife65.JPG|thumb|right|250px|A boy playing with [[garbage]] in Jakarta, [[Indonesia]].]][[File:A gipsy woman with her dog.JPG|right|thumb|250px|A homeless woman with her dog in a street of Rome]] '''Poverty''' means not having enough [[money]] for basic needs such as [[food]], [[drinking water]], [[shelter]], or [[toiletries]]. Many people in different countries live in poverty, especially in [[developing country|developing]] areas of [[West Africa|West]] and [[Sub-Saharan Africa]], [[Latin America]], [[Caribbean]] and some parts of [[Asia]]. There are different ways to measure poverty. The [[World Bank]] says that ''extreme poverty'' is when someone has less than [[US$]]1 a day to live on (that dollar is an ideal one). It has been changed to rule out certain effects such as [[inflation]], meaning that prices of things rise higher than what a person is paid, and other price level differences. ''Moderate poverty'' is when people have to live on less than $2 a day. In the year 2001, 1.1 billion people were seen as ''extremely poor'', and 2.7 billion were seen as ''moderately poor''. In the developed world this does not apply. There, many people are seen as the ''working poor''. They have a [[job]], but do not earn enough money for basic things such as food and a home. In most developed countries, people without jobs receive money from the government, but this is often less than what they need for a [[quality of life|comfortable life]]. There are different ways to tell if a country is rich or poor. The [[Gross Domestic Product]], or GDP, and [[Human Development Index]], or HDI, are two of those measures. Gross Domestic Product is the money made from trade from inside the country. HDI, meaning the [[Human Development Index]] is a different matter. It is determined by [[life expectancy]] and adult [[literacy]] rates. Places in Africa like [[Guinea-Bissau]], [[Sierra Leone]] and [[Mali]] are the poorest, with Sierra Leone having the lowest HDI ranking in the