Poverty definitions diversity and clusters of poverty

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poverty definitions, poverty types, poverty clusters
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The authors gratitude the colleagues from department of economics of Akaki Tsereteli State University for their invaluable help at every stage of the study of poverty problems, for their critical comments and fruitful recommendations.

Abstract

Today is a growing need to accumulate and generalise knowledge related to poverty which should facilitate the development of new approaches toward fighting poverty. Otherwise, any attempt to study this complex and multi-faceted problem is doomed to be incomplete. The main purpose of the paper is a further development of the overall theory of poverty through the generalisation of accumulated knowledge, related to poverty essence and poverty types understanding. The theoretical and methodological foundations of the paper are based on the analysis, comparison, systematisation and classification of the different views on the poverty, developed in scientist literature on economics, sociology, political sciences, anthropology, and psychology. Proceeding from the analysis of the different views on the poverty essence the article has been systematised and grouped poverty definitions according to seven different criteria, particularly: monetary-based understanding of poverty, population-resources-ratio-disbalance-based understanding of poverty, class-based understanding of poverty, living-standards-based understanding of poverty, self-identification-based determinations of poverty, life-style-based determinations of poverty, human-capabilities-based understanding of poverty. The analysis of the scientific literature has allowed to find out, compare and explain 34 different titles of 27 types of poverty, that are classified in 8 clusters of poverty: cluster of basic types of poverty, poverty assessment cluster, poverty origins cluster, poverty manifestation cluster, cluster of the poverty nature, poverty sustainability cluster, poverty distribution cluster, cluster of exclusion. Systematisation of poverty definitions and poverty cluster analyse are directed on a better understanding of the poverty phenomenon that might facilitate the development of new approaches toward fighting poverty and be useful for the find out effective ways of its overcoming. The study presents the results of comprehensive and complex analysis of the existing explanation and definitions of poverty essence and poverty types and offers authors’ views on their systematisation and classification.

Author Biographies

  • Tamila G. Arnania-Kepuladze, Akaki Tsereteli State University, 59 Tamar Mepe Street, Kutaisi 4600, Georgia

    PhD (economics and management); professor at the department of economics, faculty of business, law and social sciences

  • Giorgi A. Kepuladze, Caucasus International University, 73 Chargali Street, Tbilisi 0141, Georgia

    PhD (economics); professor at the department of management, faculty of business

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2021-07-02

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Arnania-Kepuladze, T.G. and Kepuladze, G.A. 2021. Poverty definitions diversity and clusters of poverty. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philosophy and Psychology. 2 (Jul. 2021), 21–28.