Debt Cancellation - The Wrong Signal For Fighting Poverty

Defining poverty varies and depends from one place to another, from one time to another and from one year to another, from household to another... A poor person in my village, Kpala, owns land, has shelter, eats fresh food but does not have health care and cannot afford to send his children to school. A poor person in Rwanda does not have land, cannot send his children to school, does not have access to health care but has access to a telephone. A poor person in Canada has shelter, basic health care but will live on junk food; his children will have access to a free and compulsory primary school. We all know that poverty exists, changing parameters from one place to another. But how do we measure poverty?

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