(k) Concept of poverty (definition of extreme poverty, widespread poverty, absolute poverty and relative poverty)

Poverty rate ( )

Gaza poverty rate ( )

If absolute rate of change of PCGNI X

National poverty rate ( of population) ____________

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.

12. In Namibia there were two kinds of poverty extreme degrees of income disparity and widespread absolute poverty.

It is in these family aggregates that one mostly finds absolute poverty.

One billion people in this world are still living in absolute poverty.

An absolute majority of the aboriginal population live below the poverty line.

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

Based on his basic needs poverty threshold, the poverty rate in Canada, the poverty rate has declined from about 12 of Canadian households to about 5 since the 1970s.

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?

Second, water scarcity is seldom absolute, and even less often an explanation of poverty.

As a consequence, more than a billion people continue to live in absolute poverty.

In the countries of the South, over 1 billion people lived in absolute poverty.

Absolute poverty, hunger, disease and illiteracy stalk one fifth of the world apos s population.

The poverty rate is 59 61 , and almost 25 of the population lives in extreme poverty.

In the US, the rate of relative poverty exceeds 20 .

The aggregate poverty rate of those six cities is 17 .

The growing number of people living in absolute poverty threatens political stability in many developing countries.

It was broadly agreed that in order to achieve that goal absolute poverty must be eliminated.

If absolute rate of change of PCGNI X (a predetermined number to be decided by the Committee)

The extreme poverty rate has declined significantly between 1999 and 2010.

Hard core poverty is set to be eliminated by 2010, with the overall poverty rate falling to 2.8 .

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

Income disparities have widened in many economies as has the number of people living in absolute poverty.

The eradication of poverty in all its forms is therefore an absolute prerequisite of peace and security.

Using comparable data and definitions provided by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the US has a poverty rate of 17.3 , roughly twice Sweden s poverty rate of 8.4 .

The better the match, the faster will be the rate of poverty reduction for any given rate of growth.

Despite the global decline in absolute poverty, the goal of redressing disproportionately high poverty levels among women and their insufficient access to economic resources remained elusive.

Absolute poverty, hunger, disease and illiteracy are the lot of one fifth of the world apos s population.

Policies for poverty reduction should therefore promote both a faster rate of growth and a high growth elasticity of poverty.

No other developing region of the world has been more successful in creating economic growth and alleviating absolute poverty.

97. Absolute poverty, hunger, disease and illiteracy are the lot of one fifth of the world apos s population.

The incidence of absolute poverty has decreased and some headway has been made in advancing our human development policy.

That region's rate of extreme poverty is the worst in Nicaragua, at 17 times the rate in Managua and three times the rate in the other Pacific departments.

In addition to the high poverty rate, the inequality gap continued to be wide.

Since then, considerable awareness has been created among Governments and public opinion alike of the absolute priority of reducing poverty.

For example, 65 per cent of respondent countries applied the absolute concept of poverty, while about one third did not.

The number of people living below the threshold of absolute poverty had increased, and environmental degradation was reaching alarming levels.

As will be recalled, 900 million people are living in the dry lands, and many of those face absolute poverty.

During the past decade, poverty had increased in absolute and in relative terms, both in Africa and in Latin America.

A conservative estimate of absolute poverty suggested that at least two thirds of the total population lived in absolute poverty and that as much as three quarters of the black population was poor. Female headed households (40 per cent of poor households) comprised the poorest sector.