This bachelor's work deals with the poverty as a part of the welfare theory. I want to find out the current level of poverty in the world. The reader can find, in the theoretical part of this work, answers to the following questions: what is the poverty and what difficulties are connected with the definitions of it; how can we measure the poverty and what is the hardest thing about the comparison of poor countries; why the welfare don't exist in some countries and what has these countries in common; what tools exist for the poverty reduction. Than I will investigate development of life expecnancy and compare the standard of living in the developing countries. At the close I wil mention the most influential organizations in combating of pove...