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Cities Reveal the Best and the Worst Poor and Poverty To be poor, in the economic sense, one merely has to have a sufficiently low income relative to the national average. In this study the standard below which one is regarded as poor is defined as an annual income less than one half of the national [gross domestic product - GDP] per head. On this basis it is evident that to be poor is the norm in most developing countries. This fact is critical if we are to target development to benefit the poor. If one further defines the poor as those who belong to households with an annual income of half the national GDP per capita or less, we define as poor between one half and three quarters of the households of developing countries. Less developed countries; the traditional measures of poverty often based on absolute and one-dimensional approaches and referring strictly to monetary variables, seem to represent a good way to describe the phenomenon. Wealth Wealth is conventionally defined in terms of possessions and market value. One definition of wealth is: "Wealth which combines energy and intellect can only increase, and that wealth can increase only with use and that wealth increases as fast as it is used." By Anonymous The World’s Best and Worst Cities There are various reasons, which can make city best and worst for living. One of the prime factor is the economical conditions of the country as well as the in the region. The best condition of humanity includes, the sanitary system, transportation facilities, pollution level, rate of crime, facilities provided to the citizens of the city/country, environmental factor, population growth, country’s GDP, health and safety conditions, and literacy rate are the essential meters to gauge an... ...nd also Bern all sharing the second place. Milan, Athens and Rome were described as the least safe cities in Western Europe, while Washington received the worst safety ranking in the United States. Abidjan in Ivory Coast was the world's second most dangerous city at the end of last year, when the survey was taken. Several other African cities were also at the very bottom of the table. Those cities posses the best human conditions can also be consider as the richest and developed, and those which are worst, can be considered as the poor cities/countries. It is basically the game of wealth and poverty. The major population of the world has lack of food, health, wealth, water, education, and other necessities of life, which make their life so miserable and worst. References http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2815105.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2815625.stm