The economic upturn has helped to strengthen the socio economic rights of the citizenry, reduce poverty and boost employment, raise the level of income of the people and increase wages and pensions.

The pay received did not correspond to the level of remuneration for overtime hours set by collective agreement, or even to the level for regular hours.

It has been estimated that world wide one out of every five people live below the poverty line.

As for the determination of salaries at the Council of Ministers level, the Law on the Civil Service in Bosnia and Herzegovina Institutions sets forth criteria for salaries, accounting for salaries and the structure of salaries for civil servants in joint institutions.

The household (or family) is the basis to measure the poverty level, whereas this analysis is based on an individual level.

An analysis of the distribution of rural workingwomen, by income level is highly relevant to the issue of remuneration.

And the fact that higher wages in Germany will be matched by lower wages across southern Europe suggests that continent wide inflationary pressures will remain subdued.

Productivity growth has an impact on poverty because productivity drives wage increases, which help to improve the standard of living.

The Government has also taken a number of initiatives to combat poverty at the grassroots level.

Other priorities of the Government included reducing poverty and increasing wages for the public sector.

Critics argue that, for methodological reasons, the PPP based poverty line misrepresents the prevalence of poverty worldwide.

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1 Depth of poverty is a poverty indicator that shows the average deviation of the level of income of members of the target households from the established criterion (subsistence level, food poverty line, and official poverty line).

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A major dimension of poverty is that men and women experience poverty differently at the level of the household and, therefore, by aggregation in the economy as a whole.

Africa has the highest level of poverty in the world and is one of the two regions where poverty has not declined in the past twenty years.

The Commission, under its ongoing review of the pay and benefits system, continued to review the methodology for determining the level of the education grant.

The relatively high poverty level contributes to a lower health status of the population.

The MDGs helped to cut global extreme poverty by more than half.

In the developing countries, the main problem is the survival of the majority of families, who live below the poverty line.

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Effectively dealing with desertification will lead to a reduction in global poverty.

The poverty level of families with disabled members is also high.

More than 90 percent of the population lives below the federal poverty line.

Unemployment remained high, at 7.8 at the end of 2012, and there has been almost no real wage growth over the last few years.

Productive employment by women is also a critical factor in the eradication of poverty, both at the household level and for national economies.

The Council also fixes minimum wages taking into account in particular the level of inflation expected during the coming year this has in the first instance permitted partial or total avoidance of decline in the purchasing power of these wages.

Many advances by women in the economic, employment and educational spheres are offset by the continuing effects of widespread poverty.

The Committee calls upon the State party to strengthen its efforts to combat poverty and social exclusion and to develop a mechanism for measuring the poverty level and monitor it closely.

About half of the Palestinian population, 18 million persons, lived below the poverty threshold.

The poverty level of families with disabled members is also high.

Determination of wages.

But, whereas many parts of the world are extremely poor because of their isolation, Haiti is extremely poor despite its proximity to the world s largest market.

poverty 69 of the populace lived below the poverty line, whereas the cost of an education is increasing

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.

European Union At EU level, the gender pay gap is defined as the relative difference in the average gross hourly earnings of women and men within the economy as a whole.

The level of the remuneration of the members of the Tribunal was determined at the fourth Meeting of States Parties in 1996 based on the comparator, which was the emoluments received by members of the International Court of Justice.

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

It also helps to increase the level of schooling for male and female workers, to facilitate the process for social inclusion and to reduce poverty.

The Agenda apos s first objectives should be to eliminate poverty, meet peoples apos basic needs and improve their standard of living.

PEI has the lowest male female wage gap in Canada for several reasons, one of which is the number of workers who are covered by federal or provincial public sector pay equity initiatives.

It will be difficult to reduce world poverty while the wicked concentration of wealth continues.

Consequently, wages are market sustainable.

Since it is increasingly difficult to recruit and retain soldiers, to do so will probably require raising their wages and improving their quality of life.

4.4 Elimination of gender disparity in wages.