Poverty Alleviation Poverty alleviation is a high priority of the Government of Pakistan.

Many non Annex I Parties reported that poverty reduction is the overriding developing priority due to their high levels of poverty.

Unemployment and poverty rates are very high.

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

The number of people living in extreme poverty remains high.

Economic growth by itself is not sufficient, and high growth rates alone will not guarantee significant poverty reduction.

The high level of income inequality requires specific poverty reduction efforts.

As a consequence, a high percentage of the country's population, 45.8 per cent, is living in poverty, while 15.1 per cent of the total population lives in extreme poverty.

Hopes were high that he would deliver progress against the extraordinary poverty.

In this context, it is important to remember that rapid economic growth and high and sustained levels of employment facilitate poverty reduction and are critical to attaining poverty eradication objectives.

The result, however, is that everybody loses. Schools underperform poverty remains high and the resulting high rates of unemployment and crime impose huge financial and social costs on US society.

In Sub Saharan Africa and parts of Asia, poverty and hunger remain stubbornly high.

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

The social and economic picture continues to show high levels of poverty and inequality.

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.

Schools underperform poverty remains high and the resulting high rates of unemployment and crime impose huge financial and social costs on US society.

Currently, the Maghreb countries suffer from soaring unemployment, poverty, and high prices for basic commodities.

Argentina s high levels of social exclusion and poverty remain unsolved problems that must be addressed if long term growth is to be sustained.

One reason is that Africa s recent growth rates, while high by international standards, remain too low to have a substantial impact on poverty.

Because most of those high fertility countries are among the least developed countries where levels of extreme poverty are high, the advantages that can be brought by the demographic bonus can also contribute to the reduction of poverty.

If the global poverty reduction target is met, it will be due to high growth in emerging countries such as China or India rather than to a decline in absolute poverty in the neediest countries.

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.

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

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.

The Millennium Development Goals placed high priority on the mobilization of all efforts aimed at poverty eradication.

Indonesia's high population and rapid industrialisation present serious environmental issues, which are often given a lower priority due to high poverty levels and weak, under resourced governance.

In France, poverty is confused with religion in America, poverty is confused with race.

While Obiang and his family and cronies jet around the world living the high life, my nieces and nephews number among the vast majority of the country s people who remain mired in poverty. Child mortality is high.

In Egypt and Greece, for example, rising poverty, high unemployment, and financial turmoil could place governments under pressure.

Parties recognized that poverty leads to high dependence on natural resources and the environment resulting in their overexploitation.

The ILO World Social Security Report found high or very high vulnerability, in terms of poverty and labor market informality, in 58 countries, mainly in Africa and Asia.

Finally, high finance allows for portfolio diversification, so that individual investors can seek high expected returns without being forced to assume large, idiosyncratic risks of bankruptcy and poverty.

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.

Poverty is predominantly rural.

Poverty is a killer.

We only ranked high when it comes to poverty, corruption, lack of freedom of speech, lack of political activism.

The high vulnerability and the lack of empowerment and representation of women are other key dimensions when fighting poverty.

South East Europe and the CIS countries have a high share of people living in poverty, with the incidence remaining high in seven low income countries in that region.

Based on the research on health conditions by the national experts, published papers, the World Bank poverty study in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the World Health Organization report, it has become fully clear that the poverty rate in Bosnia and Herzegovina is high.

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).

Initial conditions are so low that only high and sustained growth levels may have a noticeable impact on poverty reduction.

Using the map, we can see that poverty rates are high in the northern and central parts of the country.

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

Madagascar is one of the poorest countries in the world, with a high population growth rate of 2.5 per year and nearly 70 of the population living in poverty.

Poverty is on the rise.