definitions of poverty that are derived from experts

experts use 7 examples to define poverty. the first example is the fractions of the income distribution, this example uses household income to determine whether someone is living poverty or not and they define poverty as "households living below various percentages of mean or median equivalised household income. The second example is the $1 and $2 a day which basically states that countries that are living in poverty are below the $1 a day threshold. The third example is the poverty datum line, this line is used to measure whether a person is poverty stricken or no by measuring if they can afford things such as food, clothing, light and cleaning supplies (primary datum line) or accommodation costs, transport and tax (secondary poverty datum line). The fourth example is the minimum living level and supplemental living level where the minimum level is about the affordability of basic essential. The fifth example is the household subsistence level and household effective level, this line focuses on the affordability of education. medical expenses, savings holidays, etc. The 6th example is the Hoogeveen and Ozler - upper and lower bound poverty line where people that earn R593 per month fall under the upper bound line and those who earn R322 per month fall under the lower bound line. The last example is the food insecurity measures of poverty , this one looks at the kind of food people afford.