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Poverty has be defined as relative deprivation, this is due to the fact that poverty has been associated and related to the level of income and social living that is seen as average for a Society.

 Experts have came up with multiple theories and poverty lines that they use to determine and to define  poverty, for instance, the experts have derived measures like: the world bank one dollar or 216 dollars per day poverty line; the poverty datum lines (which was the first to be developed in South Africa); the minimum living level and supplemental living level (which was came up with Bureau for market research); while some experts came up with the household subsistence level; upper and lower poverty line, and lastly the food insecurity measures of poverty. In all these difinitions and poverty lines that the experts came up with there is no single straight forward difinition of poverty as all the experts base their definition of poverty on their orbitrary/ personal decisions, however one thing that stands out is the fact that it is the society that sets an average standard of living which every individual or family is expected to meet in order to not be associated with living in poverty.