Poverty and Development by Usic https://padlet.com/usictech/rah79oxmzonmc5no Made with a little mischief en-us 2021-07-05 08:20:57 UTC 2026-02-26 18:18:45 UTC hello@padlet.com Q1: What does poverty mean?Q2: What distinguishes the ‘rich’ from the ‘poor’? usictech https://padlet.com/usictech/rah79oxmzonmc5no/wish/1637063666
Q1: What are the main differences of the Orthodox and Alternative views of development? Provide examples to support your answer.
 
Q2: Which of the two perspectives (Orthodox or Alternative)  does the definition of Human Development as explained in the second reading below best align ? Provide examples to support your answer.
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A. Absolute poverty;people are poor if they do not have the resources to maintain human life- food, clothing, shelter.
B. Relative poverty:definition of poverty must relate to the standards of a particular society at a particular time. Being poor depends on how wealthy a society is. A wealthy society will always have people who are Poor relative to the rich. 

 Poverty is portrayed in terms of deprivation and suffering. In addition, it is associated with laziness and personal failure.

2.Rich people have their money work hard for them. Poor people work hard for their money.

Activity 2
By contrast, the orthodox approach places too much emphasis on money and capital, while the alternative approach believes that communities have too much power to affect national change.
The orthodox approach focuses too narrowly on money and capital, while the other puts too much faith in the power of communities to affect change at the national level.]]> 2021-07-05 08:22:25 UTC https://padlet.com/usictech/rah79oxmzonmc5no/wish/1637063775 Group 3 https://padlet.com/usictech/rah79oxmzonmc5no/wish/1637067937 Activity 1
Q1:One is the concept of absolute poverty, understood as the minimum set of resources a person needs to survive. A lack of resources that is life-threatening
The other is the concept of relative poverty, a measurement of the resources and living conditions of parts of the population in relation to others. 
Poverty defined according to the living standards of the majority in any given society.

Q2:The characteristics of rich, high income, good medical and educational conditions.
A common measure of absolute poverty is the international poverty line set by the World Bank: People earning less than $1.90 per day live in absolute or extreme poverty. Used to be $1 a day.
Relative poverty is more difficult to measure. In wealthy countries, people without central heating, TVs and mobile phones may be considered to be living in relative poverty. 
They cannot live a lifestyle enjoyed by the majority of their society.In terms of education, poverty affects the ability of students to profit from the learning environment, especially those from poor families. The need for a safe and stable home, clothing and normal diet affects their learning ability.

Activity2
The alternative view
·Poverty: a situation suffered by people who do not have the money to buy food and satisfy other basic material needs. · Solution: transformation of traditional subsistence economies defined as backward into industrial,

● Solution; creation of human well-being through sustainable
commodified economies defined as 'modern!Production for profit.Individuals sell their labour for money, rather than producing to meet their family's needs.
societies in social; cultural, poltlcal, and economic terms 
●Core ideas and assumptions: sufficiency. The inherent"

● Core ideas and assumptions the possibility of unlimited economic growth in a free market system. Economies eventually become self-sustaining(take-off point). Wealth is said to trickle down to those at the bottom. Al layers of society benefit through a trickle-down' mechanism when the superior 'Western' model is adopted.
Measurement fulfillment of basic material and non-material 
Measurement economic growth; Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita; industrialization, including agriculture. 
● Process; top-down; reliance on external expert knowledge,
human needs of everyone; condition of the natural environment. Political empowerment of marginalized. Process; bottom-up; participatory; reliance on appropriate
usually Western.Large capital investments in large projects; advanced technology; expansion of the private sphere.
· Poverty.a situation suffered by people who are. notable to
meet their material and non-material needs through their own efforts. value of nature, cultural diversity, and the community-controlled commons (water, land, air, forest). Human activity in balance with nature.Self-reliance and local control through democratic inclusion, participation ,and giving a voice to marginalized groups, such as women, indigenous groups.
(often local) knowledge and technology; small-scale projects; protection of the commons.
]]> 2021-07-05 08:26:51 UTC https://padlet.com/usictech/rah79oxmzonmc5no/wish/1637067937 Group 4 https://padlet.com/usictech/rah79oxmzonmc5no/wish/1637069495 Q1：
Absolute poverty means people who are deprived of the basic necessities of life and have low incomes such as food, shelter and clothing.
Relative poverty refers to the measure of poverty in terms of the standards enjoyed by the majority of people in a society and their relative position in the socioeconomic order. For example, poverty in developed countries refers more to the lack of personal resources, such as educational resources, than to the poverty of economic income.
Q2：
The poor.
The poor are often seen as the victims of some kind of storm of social injustice.
Poverty is, at least in part, linked to laziness and personal failure.
The rich.
The rich may also be wealth accumulating
The other half of the wealthy's wealth is related to hard work and competence


]]> 2021-07-05 08:28:45 UTC https://padlet.com/usictech/rah79oxmzonmc5no/wish/1637069495 Group 2 https://padlet.com/usictech/rah79oxmzonmc5no/wish/1637069694 1. The term of social inequality that people's power and moral is eliminated because of suffering poor, and people usually connect poverty with materialism and consumerism 
2. Rich is the manifestation of hard work and personal ability. Poverty is failure due to individual laziness and lack of ability. The difference is: whether the individual works hard and his own ability.

Activity2
Q1: 
Orthodox view: people who lack of money to buy necessaries, for example, individual who are unemployed only sell their labour for profits instead of their own family's necessities
Alternative view: people are hard to get materials because they are unable to provide their labour


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