Corelation of poverty and economic development

Poverty, defined as failure to meet the basic needs to survive such as food, shelter, education and health, , is a problem of a global dimension that have to be solved by less developed and developing countries. Certainly, insufficient income and unequal distiribution of income between individuals or countries is the primary cause of the poverty during the financial conditions effective in the worldwide. Associating poverty problem with only insufficient income level and believing that economic growth is the solution of the problem means ignoring the multi-faceted natüre of the poverty. Definition of the poverty indicators, causes and criterions of poverty and measuring the poverty levels have an importance on making the poverty discussions. In addition, analyzing the effects of underdevelopment on poverty and the thoughts of the development theories on decreasing poverty is a necessity of solution. Complex structure of poverty and the variety of the terms that related with it makes it necessary to analyze poverty in details. As being one of the main subjects of the development economics, poverty has a correlative relation with development and its sub components. Analyzing the direction and size of the corelative relationship between poverty and growth or income distribution have a great importance on determining the policies to solve the poverty problem.