...There are many aspects of poverty -not only a lack of income but a lack of assets,a lack of power,a lack of legal rights (or their upholding), a lack of the resources or contacts necessary to secure political advantage,a lack of access to education,and a very poor quality of housing in which most low-income groups have to live and the tremendous health burden this brings with it, especially where health care provision is also inadequate. But because urban poverty has been equated only with a lack of income, as Northern concepts of “poverty lines” were transferred to the South with little or no modification, the interventions that successfully addressed the other aspects of poverty were not considered as poverty reduction.