How is poverty of people categorised?
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There are many ways to categorise the poverty of people:
  1. Those who are always poor' and those who are usually poor are grouped together as 'chronic poor'.
  2. The 'churning poor are those who regularly pull in and out of poverty (small farmers and seasonal workers).
  3. The transient poor are those who are occasionally poor when they run into a patch of bad luck.
  4. The non-poor are those who are never poor.
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