Unemployment and poverty rates are very high.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

In 2002, the total poverty rate in my country was 46.4 per cent because of decades of neglect.

The Panel, therefore, concludes that Kuwait has not provided sufficient evidence to enable the Panel to quantify the magnitude of any lost biomass.

The poverty level has also increased drastically over the last fifteen years or so and women have borne the brunt of it.

267. The following table shows first of all that it is in the category of households whose breadwinner is unemployed at the time of the survey that the poverty rate is highest, at 19.2 per cent, but it must be noted that in relation to all pockets of poverty this category represents barely 4 per cent.

In the rural part of the Pacific region, female headship went down among non poor households (from 19.5 per cent to 17.5 per cent), while it increased among poor households, particularly among the extremely poor (from 22.6 per cent to 27.0 per cent).

Poverty

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.

The figures for provinces with overall indicators of poverty and very low mortality rates suggest an element of under registration.

the poorest nations can grow out of poverty through trade

In addition, there are differences related to income quintile and level of education.

The poverty line

True, your parents were poor, and still are.

With that strategy, we aim, by 2009, to reduce the unemployment rate from 9.5 per cent to 5.1 per cent and to cut the poverty rate by half, to 8.1 percent.

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.

Why has poverty remained stuck at 12 percent of the U.S. population for 40 years?

Poverty increased, the currency suffered repeated devaluations, foreign and domestic debt registered an increase and the growth rate of the economy fell.

Data from these surveys will serve a new major initiative, namely to establish a national strategy for increasing social productivity and reducing regional disparities this work supported by UNDP will be based on defining and mapping poverty, and on establishing a national poverty line or band.

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

One reason global poverty has been so intractable is that it remains largely out of sight for those who are not living it, safely somebody else s problem. The fact that most participants in discussions about global poverty the readers of this commentary included know few, if any, people who live below the poverty line is an indication of the extent of the world s economic segregation.

The overall poverty rate (Low Income Cutoffs After Tax) for Newfoundland and Labrador has decreased from 12.8 percent in 2000 to 9.6 percent in 2002.

It was estimated that Malawi would have to grow by at least 6 per cent a year in order to reduce poverty significantly.

Nowadays, the fertility rate among the poorest women is 4.0 children by contrast with the rate of 1.6 for women enjoying better socio economic conditions.