CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR STUDYING THE PROBLEM OF POVERTY

Аннотация

This article is devoted to one of the urgent socio-economic problems as the problem of poverty. Poverty has a negative impact on the economic development of countries. The article describes the social-darwinian, socially egalitarian or egalitarian, and statistical-sociological approaches to the study of poverty. Three stages of the evolution of solving the problem of poverty are highlighted. A comparative characteristic of the types of poverty is carried out: objective (absolute and relative) and subjective. The features of stable and floating poverty are highlighted. The characteristics of primary and secondary types of poverty are also given. The social, economic and regional types of poverty are considered. Methodological problems of poverty measurement are revealed. The issues of quantitative and qualitative assessment of poverty level are considered. The main criteria for determining the level of poverty have been studied. The economic characteristics of the scale, threshold and boundaries of poverty are given.