Memahami & Mengukur Kemiskinan

Poverty arises from differences in abilities and opportunities.

Poverty is a global problem. Living in poverty is not only living in a lack of money and low income levels, but also many other things, such as: health level, low education, unfair treatment in law, vulnerability to criminal threats, powerlessness to face power and powerlessness in determining their own way of life. .

Poverty as a socio-economic disease is not only experienced by developing countries, but also developed countries such as the United States and Britain. The United States as a developed country is also faced with poverty problems, especially during the depression and economic recession of the 1930s. In the 1960s the United States was listed as the world's richest and most powerful country. Most of the population live in sufficiency. Even the United States has provided a lot of assistance to other countries. However, behind this situation, 32 million people or one-sixth of the total population are classified as poor.

England experienced poverty at the end of the 1700s in the era of the rise of the industrial revolution that emerged in Europe. At that time the poor in England came from factory workers who were previously farmers who earned low wages, so their purchasing power was also low. They generally live in slums which are prone to other social ills, such as prostitution, crime and unemployment.

Poverty is still a central issue in Indonesia. The poverty rate in Indonesia from year to year seems to have never been reduced so much. Various efforts have been made by the government in dealing with the problem of poverty in Indonesia.

However, these efforts have not yielded significant results.

The book entitled "Understanding AND MEASURING POVERTY" is worthy of possession not only by observers and observers of poverty, but also politicians and bureaucracies, policy makers who care about poverty, students both at the undergraduate level and especially at the postgraduate level to add insight and knowledge about poverty. poverty problem. In addition to its crisp language and well-spoken style, this book is rich with knowledge that can be an inspiration to anyone who reads it.

Many books that discuss the problem of poverty that have been published, but with an attractive expression and in an interesting way of speaking are not many. This book is the most interesting book I have ever read. The author of this book has succeeded in presenting a very weighty reading.