Amartya Se's Concept Of Poverty

Poverty is one of the most extensive forms of human suffering despite the immense government spending aiming to help the poor; poverty sill continues to become a great problem to many people. It is too vague to be understood with one meaning, it varies from different countries and differ base on a particular situation. The poverty known today may be different 5 years from now. Whatever the case is, it can’t be denied that poverty does exist and felt by people, especially the poor. There are a lot of solutions being presented to solve poverty, yet poverty still does exist. Then there must be something wrong on how other people look at poverty and how it is being solved. According to Amartya Sen, “poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not

In solving poverty, the poor must be empowered to enable them to think out of the box and find ways to address their troubles on their own. This paper will prove that empowered poor can be the solution to a long problem being solve which is poverty. It will guide the readers to why poverty is treatable by the poor who are empowered, anchored to Amartya Sen’s concept of development. Poverty is much more than the lack of financial or material resources and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve poverty. Charity distorts the possibility of experiencing development; it projects an idea that the solution to poverty can be simply made merely through donations and other philanthropic acts. It generalizes the concept of poverty as a simple and treatable problem. “Poverty never results from the lack of one thing but from many interlocking factors that cluster in poor people's experience and definitions of

The poor are directly affected by poverty; they should be the ones to come up with a solution to solve it. The poor must exert more efforts and participate actively in fighting poverty since they are the ones who experience it and they should be the main actors in terms of combating their plight since they fully grasp and know their situation and their current condition. The poor’s perspective and current state must be the main thought of concern to identify a viable way to approach and better their situation; through constant assistance and empowerment will they play a bigger and a more important role in the process of solving their