Poverty and social exclusion are interlinked with inequality but cannot be reduced to inequalities of income alone (Sen, 1997). Poverty is a situation in which inequalities leave some people so far away from the social mainstream that the deprivations they experience push them below what are viewed as basic standards. In practice, poverty is often operationalized and measured in terms of income or consumption poverty. Poverty lines can be defined on the basis of absolute needs (e.g., the cost of a minimum food basket plus an allowance for basic non-food basic needs), or on relative social standards that prevail in a given society at a given time. One of the main sources of dissatisfaction with absolute poverty measures is that they ignore concerns about relative deprivation, shame, and social exclusion (Ravallion, 2015).