SMT: a literature review on poverty and advocacy for a new definition cumulative poverty (ie in-cumulative support); perspectives from young people and community organisations, Bayelsa State of Nigeria, sub-Saharan Africa.

The paper critically reviews the literature on the theory of poverty in its various forms. These include the diverse definitions of poverty, absolute poverty, relative poverty, what is cumulative poverty?, intersections between cumulative poverty and extreme poverty, why cumulative poverty?, and how does it fit into the world's contemporary changing paradigms? And conclusions.

Using descriptive analysis, we draw from existing literature and adapted the case: “a study on what young people see as their support needs in Bayelsa State of Nigeria in tackling poverty and How to persuade policy makers, using social marketing techniques”?, including the Poverty Concept Mapping (Poverty Tree) model

The main finding revealed that the needs of young people and community organisations are far from being met. A great deal more support is needed. This calls for a rethink and re-evaluation of existing paradigms.

Since these current definitions and methods have not succeeded in ending extreme poverty, and it is still persisting, there is justification to re-engage, rethink, re-evaluate and re-assess these definitions and methodologies. Thus, this review is significant.

The review utilised a new table and re-arranged a list of all possible theories known to date, subject to any errors and omissions there might be.