Why calorie based poverty line fails to consider social factors ?
Shruti,
It is one of the weakness of calorie based norm of poverty line that it fails to consider social factors that exaggerate and worsen poverty, such as ill health, lack of access to resources, lack of civil and political freedom etc.
It is one of the weakness of calorie based norm of poverty line that it fails to consider social factors that exaggerate and worsen poverty, such as ill health, lack of access to resources, lack of civil and political freedom etc.