In Bhutan, the national poverty indicator includes gender sensitive poverty indicators.

The EoC understands poverty in two different ways.

A new understanding of poverty emerges from the broad experience of the Economy of Communion.

Most young people see education as a part of a lasting solution to poverty.

Nevertheless, poverty still needed to be addressed more aggressively.

They adversely affect, in no insignificant way, our fight against poverty, hunger and disease.

It is possible to generate the political will to end global poverty in our lifetime.

Labour market performances, key to tackling poverty, also diverged.

The Secretary General The past quarter century has seen a most dramatic reduction in extreme poverty.

In some regions, both Governments and families still consider institutional care an appropriate response to poverty.

For the first time in its history, the human race has the capacity to end extreme poverty.

That strategy encompasses a clear approach to achieving sustainable poverty reduction and long term economic and social development.

Agreed methodologies and tools are called for to replicate the present experience, and to identify the spatial distribution of poverty.

It is from these aggregates that one can analyze what is generally called the Woman Face of Poverty.

But instead we see a landscape of widespread poverty set against a backdrop of endemic corruption and official mismanagement.

Capital flight through corruption is one of the main causes of poverty in the South, i.e. the developing countries.

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

Poverty has a feminine face in Pakistan as in many other developing countries.

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

It had always recognized the multidimensional nature of poverty and the need for practical and integrated approaches to effectively eradicate poverty.

I should like to say that it is equally a crime against humanity to allow poverty and deprivation to persist in these modern times.

Alone, none of them will be adequate to address poverty or create good living conditions throughout the world.

In the meantime, political, social, and economic chaos will deepen, and Haiti's impoverished people will suffer.

Genuine and sustained poverty alleviation will only occur in an environment of good governance, private sector growth and respect for private property ownership.

Perfil comparativo de la pobreza en Nicaragua, National Institute of Statistics and Censuses, national household survey on standards of living, 1993 2001.

All of this is happening in spite of the commitments entered into at the Millennium Summit to fight poverty, disease and misery.

Unfortunately, it had not yet been possible to achieve a world fit for children. They still fell prey to poverty, violence and exploitation.

The experiences of China, East Asia and India have been a powerful demonstration that rapid progress can be made in tackling poverty.

In much of Africa, one of the major causes and consequences of poverty is disease, mainly malaria and HIV AIDS.

We will work to undertake the full range of our responsibilities and roles, from tackling poverty and hunger to promoting human rights and bridging the digital divide.

Yet, the international community allows poverty to destroy lives on a scale before which the impact of all of the world's natural disasters pales into insignificance.

The objective of the project proposal is to provide information about the present situation of poverty and land degradation in the world and to analyse the inter relationships that exist.

The Government was taking a broad range of initiatives to address poverty the objective was its total eradication.

The greatest challenge, however, was to draw a poverty map which would adapt national development goals to the needs of local communities.

To address those issues we have promoted a rapid increase in spending for social services to put a stop to growing poverty.

Two additional objectives of the survey were to analyse regional perspectives of how countries gauge poverty and to identify the means by which poverty measurement could be improved.

However, this accentuated fall in fertility has not been followed by significant changes in the existing levels of poverty and social inequality.

But little attention was paid to poverty s structural causes, such as inequality of assets and opportunities, or the unequal distributional consequences of growth.

Indeed, stunting has come to represent the true face of contemporary global poverty, causing irreparable damage to children s cognitive development and physical growth.

The depleted economy had lost the gains it had achieved during 15 years of growth, and as a result, poverty was widespread.

In addressing poverty, young people emphasize the need to better integrate the principles of sustainable development, including respect for the environment and human rights.

His country was convinced that the principal cause of poverty was inequality and the power structure that sustained it both within nations and internationally.

One such difference is today's global economic landscape, characterized by pockets of affluence and mass, abject poverty.

Poverty reduction policies should attack poverty by addressing its root causes and manifestations and incorporate equity and equality measures in those policies.

Any definition of poverty and course for its elimination is shaped by prevailing notions about the nature and purpose of the development process.