In order to combat poverty, a number of Parties have developed special poverty programmes.

The number of people living in extreme poverty remains high.

He indicated a number of conditions for achieving poverty reduction in these countries.

In many countries, the number of people living in poverty has increased since 1995.

Recent World Bank poverty recalculations are expected to raise the number even higher.

Halving the number of people living in poverty by 2015 would therefore be a difficult task.

A number of blueprints for success in the war on poverty have been promulgated since 2000.

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

The Committee expresses its concern at the high and increasing number of children living in poverty and extreme poverty in the State party, especially in rural areas.

During the Millennium Summit, world leaders defined a number of tasks aimed at halving poverty by 2015.

The limiting factors must be considered in the context of the poverty or extreme poverty in which a large percentage of the population lives, including a disproportionate number of women.

Given the number of people climbing out of poverty in China and India, that is a deeply implausible scenario.

While poverty rates have decreased slightly in recent years, the total number of poor people has risen substantially.

According to the World Youth Report 2005, South Asia had the largest number of youth living in poverty.

The Second Committee had taken up a number of issues relating to trade, finance, globalization and poverty eradication.

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

South Asia has the largest number of youth living below the two poverty lines, followed by sub Saharan Africa.

A growing number of Governments and non governmental organizations have joined in the effort to eradicate hunger and poverty.

That will make it possible to reduce considerably the number of the unemployed, thereby also addressing the complicated issue of poverty.

A number of participants drew attention to the importance of the private sector in generating income and employment and eradicating poverty.

Notable in this connection is that the number of people living in extreme poverty in sub Saharan Africa has doubled.

The number of women living in poverty was, however, increasing, especially among older women and Traveller women, and more women were living in poverty in Ireland than in any other European country.

In some countries, however, the provision of social services poses extreme challenges owing to the large number of families living in poverty.

Mr. Badji (Senegal) said that a greater number of women than men continued to suffer the disastrous consequences of poverty and illiteracy.

The ESCAP region has the largest number of absolute poor (two thirds of the world's poor) and several countries have increasing poverty levels.

ILO has been actively engaged in supporting poverty reduction strategy paper processes in a number of countries, engaging with other development partners.

Monaco also provides assistance to a number of French speaking countries in areas relating largely to poverty eradication, health care and education.

A number of factors, including climate change and poverty, had increased the risk of natural disasters and the fragility of the countries facing them.

The number of young women engaging in prostitution, especially among internally displaced persons, is rising because of the high level of unemployment and poverty.

Such a plan would hasten achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, primarily by halving the number of people living in extreme poverty by 2015.

Although economic growth has reduced South Asia s poverty rate, it has not fallen fast enough to reduce the total number of poor people.

(a) Continue to strengthen its policies and programmes to combat the factors responsible for the increasing number of children living in extreme poverty

The paradox of South Asia is that growth has been instrumental in reducing poverty and improving social outcomes, but poverty rates and social outcomes have not improved fast enough to reduce the total number of people living in misery.

The Committee is concerned that the lives of a great number of children are marked by poverty, difficult access to, and deficient quality of, public services.

Our national targets include a 50 per cent reduction in the number of people living below the poverty line during the period 2001 2010.

The number of people living in absolute poverty in Africa actually rose from 227 million in 1990 to more than 313 million in 2001.

A number of projects in the field of poverty reduction, skill development, health, education have NGOs as partners in implementation or even as exclusive implementing agencies.

Because the world s population is rising, halving the proportion of people suffering from hunger (and extreme poverty) means that the number will not be halved.

A number of factors, including famine, poverty, high taxes and corruption among the ruling class, led to several notable peasant revolts in the 19th century.

Welcomes the increasing number of events associated with the celebration, on 17 October of each year, of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and the opportunity which these events provide to people and populations living in extreme poverty to make their voices heard

Expressing deep concern that the number of women and girls living in poverty has increased disproportionately to the number of men, particularly in developing countries, and that the majority live in rural areas where their livelihoods are dependent on subsistence agriculture,

Expressing deep concern that the number of women and girls living in poverty has increased disproportionately to the number of men, particularly in developing countries, and that the majority live in rural areas where their livelihoods are dependent on subsistence agriculture,

Expressing deep concern that the number of women and girls living in poverty has increased disproportionately to the number of men, particularly in developing countries, and that the majority live in rural areas where their livelihoods are dependent on subsistence agriculture,

Noting with concern the significant number of children who have been orphaned or otherwise separated from their parents for a large variety of reasons, including conflict, violence, poverty, AIDS and social breakdown, and that this number is projected to grow,

Expressing deep concern that the number of women and girls living in poverty has increased disproportionately to the number of men, particularly in developing countries, and that the majority live in rural areas where their livelihoods are dependent on subsistence agriculture,