देश के किस प्रसिद्ध मंदिर को 21 मार्च के बाद श्रद्धालुओं के लिए खोल दिया गया है?

प्रतिवर्ष 02 अक्टूबर को ‘अंतरराष्ट्रीय अहिंसा दिवस’ किस व्यक्ति के जन्मदिन पर मनाया जाता है?

दो संख्याओं का लघुत्तम समापवर्तक 2079 और महत्तम समापवर्तक 27 है। यदि एक संख्या 189 है, तो दूसरी संख्या ज्ञात कीजिए।

दो उम्मीदवारों ने एक चुनाव लड़ा। उनमें से एक को 64% वोट मिले और वह 434 वोटों से जीत गया। कुल कितने वोट पड़े?

इंडिया इंटरनेशनल फिल्म फेस्टिवल (IIFFB) 2020 में किसे लाइफ टाइम अचीवमेंट अवॉर्ड मिला है?

Read the passage carefully and give the answer of following questions.

Poverty can be defined as a social phenomenon in which a section of the society is unable to fulfil even its basic necessities of life. When a substantial segment of the society is deprived of the minimum level of living and continues at a bare subsistence level, that society is said to be plagued with mass poverty. The countries of the third world exhibit invariably the existence of mass poverty, although pockets of poverty exist even in the developed countries of Europe and America.

Attempts have been made in all societies to define poverty, but all of them are conditioned by the vision of minimum or good life obtaining in society. For instance, the concept of the poverty in the U.S.A. would be significantly different from that in India because the average man is able to afford a much higher level of living in the United States. There is an effort in all definitions of poverty to approach the average level of living in a society and as such these definitions reflect the coexistence of inequalities in a society and the extent to which different societies are prepared to tolerate them. For instance, inn India, the generally accepted definition of poverty emphasizes minimum level of living rather than a reasonable level of living. This attitude is borne out of a realization that it would not be possible to provide even a minimum quantum of basic needs for some decades and therefore, to talk about a reasonable level of living or good life may appear to be wishful thinking at the present stage. Thus, political considerations enter the definitions of poverty because programmes of alleviating poverty may become prohibitive as the vision of a good life widens.

What is poverty according to the writer?