This book elucidates upon the concept of poverty, its factors and dimensions, It tries to conduct a scholarly study if the nation of Poverty in India with a global perspective and examines how it is responsible for problems like crimes in the society. Through the book the authors have tried to speculate poverty from socio-economic aspects and also assess the adverse impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on nations especially in raising poverty levers and hampering there economic development. It attempts to study the legal frame work constituted both at the national and international levels to achieve the first Sustainable Development Goal (SDG-1) of