POLI 3424 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Informal Sector, Child Mortality
11 Nov 2020
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Poverty is humiliation, the sense of being dependent, and of being forced to accept rudeness, insults, and indifference when we seek help. Don"t ask me what poverty is because you have met it outside my house. Look at my house and count the number of holes. Look at my utensils and the clothes that i am wearing. Look at everything and write what you see. The things we are using to measure poverty: Health - blood pressure, bmi, vaccinations, life expectancy, etc. Let"s say that healthy people tend to be taller, and you are not tall. All of your other measures are doing just fine. Poverty means working for more than 18 hours a day, but still not earning enough to feed myself, my husband, and two children. No contract if your boss doesn"t pay you. No protections (if you get sick, tough) The rich have a permanent job; the poor are rich in many jobs.
