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.

Unemployment and poverty rates are very high.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tremendous wealth existed alongside chronic destitution.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.