Population in absolute poverty

Considering the limited availability of data in Bosnia and Herzegovina for determining absolute and relative poverty, we opted for the absolute poverty line as the most suitable instrument for poverty definition and monitoring.

And we have most who lived in absolute poverty were Asians.

It is in these family aggregates that one mostly finds absolute poverty.

For some Parties, a high percentage of the population live in absolute poverty.

As a consequence, more than a billion people continue to live in absolute poverty.

116. More people than ever are living in absolute poverty and without adequate shelter.

Many Afghans live in absolute poverty without clean water, shelter and basic health services.

The absolute number of people living in poverty continues to rise (see A 52 573).

Thus, millions of people living in rural areas cross the threshold of absolute poverty every day.

More than a billion people live below the threshold of absolute poverty and in critical medical conditions.

Despite the global decline in absolute poverty, the goal of redressing disproportionately high poverty levels among women and their insufficient access to economic resources remained elusive.

Today, these peoples are living in a state of absolute poverty, as frequently noted by the international community.

No other developing region of the world has been more successful in creating economic growth and alleviating absolute poverty.

The consequences have been sobering absolute declines in GDP, increased poverty, hunger, human rights abuses and violent social unrest.

Since then, considerable awareness has been created among Governments and public opinion alike of the absolute priority of reducing poverty.

For example, 65 per cent of respondent countries applied the absolute concept of poverty, while about one third did not.

The number of people living below the threshold of absolute poverty had increased, and environmental degradation was reaching alarming levels.

While she welcomed the great strides made in formulating strategies to eradicate absolute poverty and reduce overall poverty, she was concerned that poverty indicators continued to worsen while the gap between the rich and the poor widened.

The absolute poverty line is determined by the value of spending of each individual, irrespective of place and time of living.

Although it had bypassed several developing regions, especially sub Saharan Africa, the global decline in absolute poverty represented a significant achievement.

It is in the Northeast Region that we observe the highest levels of absolute poverty and income concentration in the country.

This income poverty can be considered in absolute or relative terms, depending upon the understanding of the notion of basic needs.

Recalling also that in the Copenhagen Declaration and Programme of Action States decided to formulate or strengthen, preferably by the year 1996, the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty, national policies and strategies geared to substantially reducing all forms of poverty, reducing inequalities and eradicating absolute poverty by a target date to be specified by each country, and to develop a precise definition and assessment of absolute poverty,

There's only one absolute reality by definition, one absolute being by definition, because absolute is, by definition, single, and absolute and singular.

Even with reductions in poverty levels in some of its countries, the ESCWA region as a whole will not succeed in halving by 2015 the proportion of people living in absolute poverty.

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42. A growing number of countries have formulated national strategies and action plans to fight poverty, in response to the World Summit for Social Development commitment to reduce overall poverty and eradicate absolute poverty through decisive national and international actions.

1. Reiterates that the main objective of the first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty is to achieve the goal of eradicating absolute poverty and reducing overall poverty substantially in the world through decisive national actions and international cooperation

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Poverty has dropped from 57.5 per cent to 40.2 per cent and absolute poverty rates have come down from 27.5 per cent in 2003 to 15 percent in 2004 and continue to decline.

While the number of people living in absolute poverty had declined by more than 200 million since 1990, particularly in eastern Asia, in sub Saharan Africa and western Asia poverty had actually increased.

(b) The existence of widespread absolute poverty inhibits the full and effective enjoyment of human rights and renders democracy and popular participation fragile

Two million Palestinians depended on food aid for survival and lived in absolute poverty, in other words on less than 2 a day.

The ESCAP region has the largest number of absolute poor (two thirds of the world's poor) and several countries have increasing poverty levels.

However, many were now asking why, after 20 years of application of that economic model, there had been an increase in absolute poverty.

Voluntary poverty provides a foundation for the dynamics of reciprocity and prompts us to free ourselves from looking at goods as absolute possessions.

(c) The existence of widespread absolute poverty inhibits the full and effective enjoyment of human rights and makes democracy and popular participation fragile

29. The existence of widespread absolute poverty inhibits the full and effective enjoyment of human rights and renders democracy and popular participation fragile.

ACTIONAID is a development organization dedicated to the proposition that absolute poverty can be substantially reduced and is ultimately eradicable through concerted action.

The imagery of God is absolute being, absolute awareness and knowledge and wisdom and absolute compassion and love.

10. Reiterates its call to Governments to define time bound goals and targets for reducing overall poverty and eradicating absolute poverty, expanding employment and reducing unemployment, and enhancing social integration, within each national context

The number of people living in absolute poverty in Africa actually rose from 227 million in 1990 to more than 313 million in 2001.