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.

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

Let us, for example, consider Goal 1, reducing extreme poverty by half.

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

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.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this.

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

As a result, the number of people in poverty had dropped from 250 million in the late 1970s to 5.8 million, and the goal was to eliminate absolute poverty by the end of the century.

Tremendous wealth existed alongside chronic destitution.

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.

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.

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

Its activities also focused on strengthening democracy and national reconciliation and promoting economic growth and socio economic development.

The main victims are, of course, the deprived segments of society who have less to live on, and nothing seems able to halt their slide towards absolute poverty.

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

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

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

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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.

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

An annual per capita income of US 440 is the generally accepted definition of the threshold of absolute poverty the 1995 household survey showed that 46 per cent of households that is to say about half the population of Comoros now lives below the poverty line.

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?

We have committed ourselves to challenging goals, in particular to reducing extreme poverty by half by the year 2015.

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

On a broad ( 2 a day) measure of poverty, absolute numbers rose sharply during the 1980s, although on a narrower ( 1 a day) measure an initial drop in the first half of the decade was followed by a slight reversal towards the end.

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.

Combating poverty requires action on many fronts.

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

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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.

5. Reaffirms that the existence of widespread absolute poverty inhibits the full and effective enjoyment of human rights and renders democracy and popular participation fragile

4. Reaffirms that the existence of widespread absolute poverty inhibits the full and effective enjoyment of human rights and renders democracy and popular participation fragile

4. Reaffirms that the existence of widespread absolute poverty inhibits the full and effective enjoyment of human rights and renders democracy and popular participation fragile

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

An alternative form of this absolutist interpretation of income poverty would be to agree, by convention, to a per capita level of expenditure as a poverty line, such as US  1 a day or US  2 a day, in terms of a comparable level of purchasing power.

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).

UNICEF wished to highlight a few points it was not poverty alone but poverty together with other factors which led to the sexual exploitation of children girls were clearly the vast majority of the victims education and rehabilitation of the child victims were of crucial importance.