Difference between rural and urban poverty

The difference between rural and poverty lies in the nature of poverty in both areas. The poor are identified on the basis of their occupation and ownership of assets. Rural poor are the poor people residing in villages and small towns. The rural poor work mainly as landless agricultural labourers, cultivators with very small land holdings, landless labourers and tenant cultivators. On the other hand, the urban poor is the poor people living in metros and big cities and those who have migrated from rural areas in search of alternative employment and livelihood. Urban labourers do a variety of casual jobs, sell a variety of things on roadsides and are engaged in various other such activities. Urban poor are unemployed, underemployed or employed in low productivity jobs which earns them low wages. It can be seen from the given table that the poverty ratio has shifted from rural to urban areas.