...which already exist. A third is Wresinski's identification of poverty with 'lack of basic security': 'the absence of one or more factors that enable individuals...basic responsibilities and to enjoy fundamental rights in which people lack resources and rights' (cited in Duffy 1995). I have argued that poverty and exclusion...

...all attributes. Where does Wresinski's definition belong? According to Wresinski (1985, p. 25), "A lack of basic security is the absence of one or more...responsibilities and to enjoy fundamental rights." This definition is more consistent with the union than with the intersection approach, in the sense...

...www.un.org/millenium/declaration The lack of basic security means the absence of one or more of the factors that enable individuals and families to assume...to enjoy fundamental rights. Such a situation may vary in extent; its consequences can vary in gravity and may to a greater or lesser extent be irreversible....

...by ATD-Fourth World. A lack of basic security is defined by Wresinski as: ... the absence of one of more factors that enable individuals and families...assume basic responsibilities and to enjoy fundamental rights.214 The concept of a lack of basic security is closely linked to the idea of poverty, because...

...33). Wresinski identified poverty with a 'lack of basic security', understood as the absence of one of more factors that enable individuals and families...basic responsibilities and to enjoy fundamental rights ... chronic poverty results when the lack of basic security simultaneously affects several aspects...