the poorest nations can grow out of poverty through trade

Studies on poverty show that corruption is one of the biggest threats to the eradication of poverty.

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(d) Means of promoting a better understanding of the experiences and ideas of the poorest and those working alongside them

Women are also among the poorest of the poor, but nonetheless are strong drivers of change.

It is the poorest county in the state.

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.

147. The Committee notes that Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world, where more than half the population lives in absolute poverty which mainly affects the most vulnerable groups and hampers the enjoyment of children apos s rights.

About 13 per cent of children live in families which fall within the category of the poorest, and 29 per cent live in families on the poverty line.

1 Depth of poverty is a poverty indicator that shows the average deviation of the level of income of members of the target households from the established criterion (subsistence level, food poverty line, and official poverty line).

Women are not only disadvantaged within society generally, but are also in the lowest rank within each disadvantaged group the poorest of the poor.

They're people getting out of poverty as fast as they can.

The increase was more pronounced among the non indigent poor than among the non poor (except in rural areas of the Pacific region, where it declined among the non indigent poor but increased among the non poor).

Poverty was one of the most important human rights violations.

(b) Participation of the most deprived communities in decision making processes at the local level.

ii. participation of the most deprived communities in decision making processes at the local level.

Poverty, in all its forms, must be reduced and eventually eradicated.

These programmes are directly related to the poorest section of society.

Furthermore, the countries in which poor women live are among the poorest and most underdeveloped in the world.

6. Recalls that, to ensure the protection of the rights of all individuals, non discrimination as regards the poorest and the effective exercise of all human rights and fundamental freedoms, a better understanding is needed of what people living in extreme poverty, including women and children, endure and that thought must be given to the subject on the basis of the experience and ideas of the poorest themselves and of those working alongside them

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8 Source World Bank Poverty Update, 1998.

Haiti is known to be the poorest country in Latin America and among the 20 poorest countries in the world.

By committing to the 0.7 per cent target, Ireland will spend up to 8 billion on helping to tackle poverty and alleviate poverty in some of the world's poorest countries.

The urgent social deficit, for the poorer half of the population, amounts to US 2.8 billion, while the food deficit of the first three deciles, where extreme poverty is concentrated, amounts to US 1.1 billion.

The most recent estimates2 for 2004 indicate that the incidence of acute poverty rose to 21.5 per cent, while the overall incidence of poverty was 12 per cent.

The poverty line

Lastly, poverty should not be considered only in terms of its direct link with conflicts, but also in terms of its impact on other factors of conflict, such as enormous internal and international migratory pressures, which in turn lead to large scale population displacements these not only uproot populations but also increase poverty.

I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question that I most grapple with is how you actually define poverty. What does it mean?

This law led to the national strategy to combat poverty and social exclusion, which has as its primary objective to progressively reduce poverty in Québec to the level of industrialized nations with the least amount of poverty by 2013.

Concerned about the interrelationships between poverty and the realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, in particular that ill health can be both a cause and a consequence of poverty,

True, your parents were poor, and still are.

With the second type of poverty, voluntary poverty, people freely choose to live a life of poverty not of indigence but of a detachment from possessions.

Recent studies have shown that women quot heads of household quot are among those in situations of greatest disadvantage and poverty.

There was often a choice between helping the most promising or the most needy.

Rural poverty remains a significant problem, especially in the LDCs and South Asian subregion, with close to 500 million rural poor.

Urban funding had to focus on satisfying the needs of the poorest of the poor.

Income and human development poverty can cause social exclusion just as social exclusion can cause income and human development poverty.

50 percent of our residents live at or below the poverty line.

Goal 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger (environment and poverty)

Anti Poverty 2.0

Guinean women are among the poorest of the poor they are not only poor in the economic sense but they are also less powerful, if we consider their relative position in the decision making process.

Would dispensing aid by making cash transfers directly to the poorest work better?

Parenting programmes are reaching more of the poorest families.

That increase will benefit mostly the rural population and the poorest.