Integration of the informal sector into the formal economy could increase contribution of the informal sector to economic growth and poverty eradication.

While poverty rates have decreased slightly in recent years, the total number of poor people has risen substantially.

Replace feminization of poverty with increasing impact of poverty on women.

Replace feminization of poverty with increasing impact of poverty on women

In many countries, the number of people living in poverty has increased since 1995.

The private sector alleviates poverty by contributing to economic growth, generating employment and empowering poor people by increasing their choices.

Repaying such debt has rendered poor countries even poorer.

In order to reduce poverty, growth must be pro poor , which implies changes in institutions, laws, regulations and practices that create and perpetuate poverty.

As stated in the previous report of the Secretary General on the eradication of poverty (A 52 573), it is now broadly accepted that robust economic growth that is labour intensive and equitable, combined with larger outlays of social expenditures, especially directed towards the poor (now estimated at 1.3 billion people), are a winning combination in the fight against poverty.

The poverty rate was 36 per cent in the Gaza Strip and 10.5 per cent in the West Bank.

Formulas are not an end in themselves the end has to be a decrease in poverty and an increase in employment.

The reduction of poverty as well as working poverty are also dependent on productivity growth.

The involvement of women in development had always been hindered by many factors, particularly increased poverty among women, a phenomenon known as the feminization of poverty .

At the same time, urban poverty, especially in developing countries, resulted in the expansion of slums.

Many developing countries and countries with economies in transition were indeed acting upon them or achieving growth and overcoming poverty.

His Government had adopted measures aimed at accelerating growth, poverty reduction and human development and strengthening governance, respect for human rights and the rule of law.

Public development aid must be increased in order to satisfy the social needs of the poor within the general framework of the fight against poverty.

The Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy was aimed at implementing a comprehensive set of programmes to support growth and poverty reduction between 2003 and 2005.

330. The Committee notes the persistence of a high poverty level and of situations of extreme poverty, with 57 per cent of the Dominican population living below the poverty line.

We are creating jobs to reduce the number of our poor.

Both smuggling and trafficking had increased in recent years, owing to poverty and the absence of coherent migration legislation.

Recognizing that the difficult socio economic conditions that exist in many developing countries, in particular the least developed countries, have resulted in the acceleration of the feminization of poverty and that the empowerment of women is a critical factor in the eradication of poverty,

Recognizing that the difficult socio economic conditions that exist in many developing countries, in particular the least developed countries, have resulted in the acceleration of the feminization of poverty and that the empowerment of women is a critical factor in the eradication of poverty,

While growth facilitates the reduction of poverty, at the same time not all growth has been equally pro poor .

The recent session of the Commission explored ways of strengthening within the PRSs, growth, employment creation and poverty reduction.

In particular, our cooperation with the poorest countries in Africa is the area that will increase the most in the coming years.

Continuous efforts were being made to combat poverty, which was one of the main obstacles to the full development of Mexico s indigenous peoples.

Enhancing the role of NGOs to act as catalysts to combat poverty

50. From 1990 to 1997 the poverty rate increased from 35 to 58 per cent in rural areas and from 32 to 66 per cent in urban areas of Burundi.

The focus on gender and poverty in conjunction with macroeconomic developments has increased as a result of these actions.

Yet, there is persistent poverty and growing human insecurity.

Recognizing that the eradication of poverty in the least developed countries will require, inter alia, steps to empower the poor, unleash their entrepreneurial skills and allow them to access, develop and use their assets,

The employment situation led to an increase in poverty measured by the real purchasing power of incomes, although poverty measured by unsatisfied basic needs declined.

Poverty alleviation through economic growth and social development

Women represent 60 per cent of the world's 550 million working poor.6 The growth of informal work across the world, along with the informalization or casualization of formal employment, has allowed employers to lower labour costs.

Recent promises by the G8 countries to double aid are a step in the right direction for the poorest countries, as are the (still tentative) moves towards full debt relief.

They also increase the social exclusion of poorer segments of the population and reinforce inequalities between communities.

Babies left to die in ditches, the poor preying on the poor.

Women, moreover, are affected by poverty in a number of distinctive ways, and face particular obstacles, including discrimination, in seeking to overcome it.

Poor hygiene, sanitation and water exacerbate poverty by reducing productivity and elevating health care costs.

UNDP is also compiling another assistance programme on poverty, prior to the elaboration of a national programme on poverty alleviation.

The HIV AIDS pandemic is decimating human lives and threatening economic growth in some of the world's poorest countries.

Encouraged by the 2005 theme of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, Achieving the Millennium Development Goals Empowering the poorest of the poor, we appeal to Governments and States to give greater attention to their methodology of empowerment and participation of all those who live in extreme poverty in poverty eradication strategies.

The country remains in a state of abysmal poverty, and the unanimous opinion is that there has been no economic growth.

Especially in 2002, the Prime Minister approved the Comprehensive Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy.