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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.

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 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 .

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.

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

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.

The child poverty rate decreased from 17.6 percent in 2000 to 12.9 percent in 2002.

The legacy was poverty, lack of education and an enormously high rate of infant mortality.

Empirical evidence shows that there is no invariant relationship between the rate of growth and the rate of poverty reduction, and that even in a context of faster growth, complementary policies specifically targeting poverty are required.

India has experienced slower income growth than has China, which partly explains its higher poverty rate.

It is a small country that already faces drought, a high unemployment rate and widespread poverty.

The poverty rate rose from 62 per cent in 1992 to 75 per cent in 2003.

In some countries, it is reported that young people experience a poverty rate above the average.

When the Government came to power in 2003, the extreme poverty rate was 20.1 per cent.

Since 1993, Viet Nam had reduced its poverty rate by 60 per cent, thereby halving poverty ahead of the schedule set by the Millennium Development Goals.

A high population growth rate was usually an indicator of poverty rather than the cause of it.

Noting, however, that the unemployment rate remains high, and that the poverty rate is increasing, we continue to recognize that the economic situation in Kosovo remains serious.

While economic growth did lead to poverty reduction in developing countries, it did not always generate a faster rate of poverty reduction nor was the reverse true.

Africa s poverty rate in 2003 exceeds that of the next poorest region, South Asia, by 17 percentage points.

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

Jordan asserts that the large influx of refugees into its territory caused an increase in the poverty rate in Jordan, which in turn caused an increase in the crime rate.

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.

If they grow faster, at the average rates recorded in the 2000 s, the poverty rate will fall to 5.5 .

Poverty in the Caribbean was generally characterized by large income disparities and was linked to a high rate of unemployment.

While the Bank s latest PPP conversion rate puts the number of poor Chinese at 173 million, the previous rate would suggest that only 69 million Chinese were living below the poverty line.

Kasserine is one of the poorest provinces of the country, with an unemployment rate of 26.2 per cent, and a poverty rate nearing the 30 per cent, according to 2012 government statistics.

The population growth rate far exceeds the rate of food production arid and semi arid lands are being marginalized or wasted and poverty and the displacement of people are on the increase.

The new PPP data also have implications for evaluating the extent of poverty and the level of a currency s exchange rate.

Additionally, poverty, religion, tradition, and conflict make the rate of child marriage in Sub Saharan Africa very high in some regions.

In China, the most heavily populated developing country in the world, the number of people living in poverty had dropped to 26.1 million and the poverty rate had fallen to 2.8 per cent.

By contrast, a more needy Louisiana (with its staggering 24 poverty rate) was denied its request for flood mitigation funds in 2004.

A sustainable economic growth rate that helps reduce poverty and inequality can be achieved only with a skilled and innovative labor force.

The World Bank avoids this problem by assuming that the poverty rate of any country without such data matches the region s average.

If the quantity of employment or the rate of return on labour is low, a worker is likely to suffer from poverty.

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.

Nevertheless, the rate of poverty remains intolerably high and it is not likely that the continent will attain Millennium Development Goal 1 of reducing poverty by half by 2015 at current rates of growth.

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