1 Depth of poverty is a poverty indicator that shows the average deviation of the level of income of members of the target households from the established criterion (subsistence level, food poverty line, and official poverty line).

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

High level segment Economic growth and poverty reduction in the 1990s

The poverty level of families with disabled members is also high.

The poverty level of families with disabled members is also high.

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

To support the compilation of district level poverty profiles and poverty mapping, the United Nations continued its settlement level survey and completed the field survey in three regions in Puntland .

34. At the intra household level, poverty is defined in terms of consumption.

The national poverty gap, the average person's level of consumption below the poverty line, is 29 per cent, while the depth of poverty is concentrated in the rural areas.

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

The relatively high poverty level contributes to a lower health status of the population.

The programme is focused on human development through poverty alleviation at the local level.

In assessing poverty, one has to look at the elements and the level of both income poverty and human development, and at their interdependence.

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

(b) Meso level. Leadership, commitment, capacity and accountability of mainstream institutions to address feminized poverty

These high levels of unemployment and poverty lead to a low level of social integration.

(d) Micro level. Change in the harmful and discriminatory attitudes and practices that perpetuate feminized poverty

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

They could not combat poverty and hunger, if governance were not improved at the international level.

Poverty reduction and sustainable human development cannot be achieved without good governance at the national level.

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.

Social Economic At the social economic level, the association between poverty and neglect has frequently been made.

Serious efforts to reducing poverty on the regional and international level through supporting the least developing countries.

Hunger and poverty eradication required a multidimensional approach and action at the national, regional and international level.

(p) The setting of targets at the national, regional and perhaps international level, notably for poverty eradication.

The Government had also put in place policies and programmes to combat hunger with the aim of addressing poverty at the grass roots level, for example the poverty adjustment programme designed to reduce poverty in the household.

At the national level, it involved the whole population in efforts such as poverty reduction and environmental protection.

At the international level, some progress has been achieved in securing participation through the Poverty Reduction Strategy process.

A session entitled Voices against poverty was added as a special feature of the 2005 high level segment.

The developing countries still suffered from underdevelopment, poverty and unemployment, which should be addressed at a global level.

A major dimension of poverty is that men and women experience poverty differently at the level of the household and, therefore, by aggregation in the economy as a whole.

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.

Unemployment stands at 22.6 per cent and underemployment at 20 per cent 75 per cent of Nicaraguan families live below the poverty level, with 44 per cent in extreme poverty.

The point emerged from the review that at the international level, poverty existed in both developed and developing countries.

(k) Concept of poverty (definition of extreme poverty, widespread poverty, absolute poverty and relative poverty)

I disagree with those who assert Ethiopia and other African nations of similar income level s are too burdened with governance, poverty, and poor investment climates to exit the poverty trap.

The Committee calls upon the State party to strengthen its efforts to combat poverty and social exclusion and to develop a mechanism for measuring the poverty level and monitor it closely.

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

(c) Meso level. Gender equality advocates have the capacity to spearhead and transform policies and programmes to end feminized poverty

quot 25.25 The persistence of poverty on a massive scale remains one of the major challenges at the global level.

An alternative form of this absolutist interpretation of income poverty would be to agree, by convention, to a per capita level of expenditure as a poverty line, such as US  1 a day or US  2 a day, in terms of a comparable level of purchasing power.

The Committee calls upon the State party to strengthen its efforts to combat poverty and social exclusion and to develop a mechanism for measuring the poverty level and to monitor it closely.

Although developing countries had in general made progress in reducing poverty since the previous decade, extreme poverty had drastically increased in sub Saharan Africa, which had the highest level of working poor.

While the impact of macroeconomic progress has remained limited in terms of the general level of poverty, the implementation of the Strategic Framework to Combat Poverty drafted by our Government offers better prospects.

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