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.

Unemployment and poverty rates are very high.

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.

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.

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

She's desperately poor.

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

Mortality and illiteracy rates remained high in comparison to other groups, in addition to pervasive poverty, which was more severe among indigenous women.

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 ratio of poor households accessing credit loans is relatively high, especially in the Northern mountainous areas (such as Tuyen Quang, Thai Nguyen, Hoa Binh and Ha Giang).

Income poverty can also be seen in a relativist way.

Linked to deprivation, poor feeding and unavailability of appropriate care, anaemia supports a vicious cycle of illness and is a significant contributor to child morbidity and mortality.

In second place comes the category of households whose breadwinner is a farm worker, with a poverty rate of 12.7 per cent, i.e. about 100,000 poor people.

National poverty rate ( of population) ____________

On the narrower measure, as East Asia experienced a sharp drop in poverty rates, there was a persistent rise in the numbers elsewhere.

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).

The Government had set a target to reduce the female poverty ratio by five per cent by 2007 and by 15 per cent by 2012.

The poverty rate rose from 62 per cent in 1992 to 75 per cent in 2003.

In 2003, the ratio of poor households was brought down to only 11.8 .

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.

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

Also, the current, relatively low poverty rate among the population is a result of spending, which significantly exceeds current production levels. This spending has

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

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

Poverty in the Caribbean was generally characterized by large income disparities and was linked to a high rate of unemployment.

The child poverty rate decreased from 17.6 percent in 2000 to 12.9 percent in 2002.

First, poverty rates increased despite overall growth in the economy and in employment rates.

38. The increase in poverty also meant that conditions became relatively worse for those living in extreme poverty, the proportion of whom rose from 16 to 30 during this period.

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.

The differences between the social democracies and the US show up strongly in category after category. In the social democracies, less than 10 of children grow up in relative poverty (meaning households with less than half of the country s median income).

In 2001 the fertility rate in the country's poorest regions was 5.9 children per woman.

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Even though the poor are in all parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the poverty rate varies by region, and so is significantly more in Republika Srpska.

When the Government came to power in 2003, the extreme poverty rate was 20.1 per cent.

Secondly, as living conditions have improved, the incidence of poverty has fallen substantially.

COLOMBIA ILLITERACY RATE BY SEX AND POVERTY LEVEL, 1978 1993

World Bank research predicts that if all countries grow at the same rates that they did over the past 20 years, with no change in income distribution, world poverty will fall to 7.7 by 2030, from 17.7 in 2010. If they grow faster, at the average rates recorded in the 2000 s, the poverty rate will fall to 5.5 .

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

During the East Asian crisis of 1997 1998, poverty rose sharply. For example, Indonesia s poverty rate soared from roughly 11 to 37 during the crisis, mainly owing to the massive depreciation of the rupiah.

As 75 per cent of the world's poor live in rural areas where agriculture is the main stay of the economy, raising agricultural productivity has real impact on poverty reduction.

Combating poverty requires action on many fronts.

Many non Annex I Parties reported that poverty reduction is the overriding developing priority due to their high levels of poverty.