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.

She's desperately poor.

This means that the poor countries are comparatively poorer today than 35 years ago.

Income poverty can also be seen in a relativist way.

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).

72. In summary, the social impact of the adjustment policy was reflected in more widespread absolute and relative poverty in broad sectors of the population and caused relatively greater unemployment among women.

In 2001, there was about a 10.5 percent decline in the incidence of poverty and a 12.4 percent decline in the depth of poverty over the previous year.

An alternative definition of relative poverty can be provided more directly in terms of income distribution.

Poverty and environmental vulnerability are interdependent and should be kept under review.

It is important to appreciate the characteristic features of this relative poverty.

Overall reduction of poverty calls for a multidimensional approach to Poverty Eradication.

He emphasized that efforts to combat poverty, which was sometimes masked by the relatively high development indicators of the region, particularly among women, were hampered by the international situation.

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The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty.

Combating poverty requires action on many fronts.

44. This picture seems in any case to point to a lessening of absolute poverty or to a smaller number of poor in the total population. However, the social indicators suggest that relative poverty has become more acute.

In Tunisia, the programme to upgrade all poor settlements has covered 97 per cent of the housing stock in such settlements.

Some participants from the developing countries wanted poverty to be declared a proscribed basis of discrimination, while others argued that poverty is far too vague a concept to be the subject of legal rights and duties. Some contended that absolute poverty differs from relative poverty, or asked what responsibility individuals have to raise themselves out of poverty through education and work?

The Spanish people believe that it is possible to build a world free of poverty.

Low purchasing power, compounded by the 33 per cent devaluation of the Comorian franc in 1994 in relation to the French franc and the exorbitant prices relatively speaking of foodstuffs, appears to be the cause of food insecurity primarily among the poorest strata.

Poverty

The Government was taking a broad range of initiatives to address poverty the objective was its total eradication.

(a) The effects of extreme poverty on the enjoyment and exercise of all human rights and fundamental freedoms of those affected by it

the poorest nations can grow out of poverty through trade

With regard to current poverty thresholds in our country, it is worth noting that earlier there was no official definition or quantification of poverty lines in Mexico.

In particular, the Committee is concerned that minimal attention has been paid to the issue of women living in poverty and that no sex disaggregated data are available on that topic.

The Committee also regrets the absence of an official poverty line that would enable the State party to define the extent of poverty and to monitor and evaluate progress in alleviating poverty.

In several European countries, the poverty line is set at half the average national income, making people living below this line relatively poor.

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,

We therefore reiterate the call of the GCAP Wake up to poverty.

The poverty line

Access and mobility are crucial for dealing with unemployment and poverty.

It's the dependence on farm subsidies and under performing schools and higher poverty rates in rural areas than in urban.

Stressing also that respect for all human rights, which are indivisible and interdependent, is crucial to the fight against extreme poverty,

(b) The right to life encompasses existence in human dignity with the minimum necessities of life

As a result, the deprivations they experience are often even harsher than those of indigenous men.

Illicit cultivation continues to be intricately related to poverty in rural areas.

She explained how ATD Fourth World had organised a dialogue on the issues of poverty between people living in poverty and the academic community.

He expressed his conviction of the urgency of these tasks both in returnee and marginalized refugee hosting areas.

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.

365. The exacerbation of poverty has had a lasting effect on schools.

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