>> Well, I think Oxfam is historically become a poverty-based organization.
I think, initially as a response to the humanitarian crises in the aftermath of
World War II, where literally we had tens of millions of people
displaced by conflict and it, it, it was the cause of
it was actually those events that brought us into being as an organization.
And the humanitarian impulse of the British population at that time that
actually caused us to, to create Oxfam as a response to that humanitarian need.
But as time went on, we began to see that there were a variety of other
important needs that populations face and particularly the newly independent
countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
And we felt, you know, compelled in some sense to deal with those needs as well as
the immediate short term needs of the humanitarian crisis.
>> So tell me a little bit more about what poverty actually means for
people in those developing countries?
>> Well, I think perhaps the simplest way to describe it is the the absence of
public goods.
In other words, the absence of services that of, that we all take for granted,
education, health services, environmental services infrastructure and so forth.
And people lacking those, lack the opportunities to actually access
markets to access food, ina, inadequate supply.
Access educational opportunities that might enable them to,
you know, to lift themselves out of poverty, so that in some sense is the,
the historic way that poverty's been looked at.
And perhaps, this simple definition might be the absence of public goods to those,
to those marginalized or more vulnerable populations.
>> All right.
And if somebody said, well, what really is the cause of this is there,
is there any one underlying cause or are there a series of causes?