Poverty is a perception- it is a status which is (__1__) on people who have relatively little-even in societies of plenty.
That is why we (__2__) can never really ever "end" poverty. To see a world in which so many people have less than you and to want them to have more is, to many of us, human (__3__). It is why poverty in the UK matters as much as poverty else-where, despite the material differences. Relative poverty will always (__4__) and it should always be at the forefront of efforts to improve our world because it (__5__) more than the bare minimum solution.
(__6__) this, the aid industry currently has quite a few eggs in the end poverty basket. We risk assuming that the public (__7__) between absolute and relative poverty. It probably doesn't- especially not in austere times. Just look at the (__8__) political view on and to the middle income countries that contain hundreds of millions of desperately poor people.
Too much negatively and we are (__9__) of not making any progress with aid money, too much task of progress and aid is no longer necessary. It shouldn't be a Catch 22 situation but in (__10__), for some, it is.
