How do you define poverty?

Before I define Poverty in our country, let us see what is poverty really means. Poverty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty) is a condition in which a person or community is deprived of, and or lacks the essentials for a minimum standard of well-being and life. Since poverty is understood in many sense, these essentials may be material resources such as food, safe drinking water, and shelter, or they may be social resources such as access to information, education, health care, social status, political power, or the opportunity to develop meaningful connections with other people in society. With this, i could define that poverty here in our country(Phillipines) is measured through income of one's family and those who are really deprived in terms of education and food.