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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

But the fact is that Haiti does not have the resources to address the great challenge of development on its own.

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

Another major source of concern, in addition to the level of poverty, is the degradation of the environment in Haiti.

These include poverty, tribalism, and the failure of the country to live up to the vision of its first president, Jomo Kenyatta.

This is a higher level of relative poverty than all but four other EU members.

The second table lists countries by the percentage of the population living below the national poverty line the poverty line deemed appropriate for a country by its authorities.

This law led to the national strategy to combat poverty and social exclusion, which has as its primary objective to progressively reduce poverty in Québec to the level of industrialized nations with the least amount of poverty by 2013.

The Committee calls upon the State party to develop a mechanism for measuring the poverty level and to monitor it closely, and refers the State party to the Committee's statement on poverty adopted in May 2001.

Non money metric measures of poverty provide a different perspective on living conditions other than the income measure.

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.

China has pulled more than 680 million people out of poverty in the last three decades, leading a worldwide poverty decline of almost a billion people.

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.

Strengthened action is needed in order to ensure that the international community delivers on its undertakings to reduce global poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

We urge everyone to make real increases in their ODA levels and to act now as agents for development in the fight against poverty.

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

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

Also, the current, relatively low poverty rate among the population is a result of spending, which significantly exceeds current production levels. This spending has

We believe that we must continue fighting poverty, defined as a lack of opportunities, capacities and options, in order to maintain a decent standard of living.

Approximately half of the Palestinian population lived below the official poverty line, and health care and education had deteriorated substantially.

Some of the factors that drive children marriage include poverty, a desire to keep girls safe, and a lack of education allowing self sufficiency.

Disaster reduction, reducing vulnerability and building resilience in the event of natural disasters contribute to the achievement of sustainable development.

The UN Millennium Project s Hunger Task Force, led by two world leading scientists, M. S. Swaminathan and Pedro Sanchez, examined how to break this vicious circle.

Gross national savings are low, reflecting the depth of poverty in Sierra Leone and the overall weaknesses of financial institutions.

1.8 Since the establishment of the Office of the Ombudsman in 1994 the number of cases of discrimination have increased from 0 in the first year to 80 in the fourth year but it is not clear what type of discrimination was reported.

Millions plunged into poverty, from 1.5 level of poverty in the late Soviet era, to 39 49 by mid 1993.

History of social protection Traditionally, social protection has been used in the European welfare state and other parts of the developed world to maintain a certain living standard, and address transient poverty.

Productive and decent work for young people has to be addressed as a strategy in poverty reduction and sustainable development.

Hamas and Hezbollah prospered in this way because the governing authorities were either unable or unwilling to address grassroots poverty.

In other words, while South Asia s economies have not underperformed on poverty reduction, merely matching global trends may not be enough for the region with the world s largest concentration of poor people.

About 13 per cent of children live in families which fall within the category of the poorest, and 29 per cent live in families on the poverty line.

Their exposure to potential economic shocks, which threaten to push them below the general poverty line, is very high (World Bank, report No. 25343, p. 46, vol. II).

With this in mind, our authorities have developed their own national Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper which serves as a basis for organizing a round table on Guinea Bissau scheduled for the end of the year.

Despite some important initiatives, the evaluation found that inclusion of a policy level gender perspective in the poverty reduction practice area has been uneven.

Considering the FAO s conservative definition of chronic severe hunger, this is a serious indictment of global poverty reduction efforts.

Admittedly, the global commodity price boom has had profound, albeit enormously complex and uncertain, effects on poverty.