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

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.

Nevertheless, poverty and the income gap between regions remain an obstacle to the implementation of the CEDAW Convention.

The income gap between developed and developing countries has widened, and poverty has increased in many developing countries.

The Commission stresses the need to further address poverty, exclusion, social injustice and the gap in wealth distribution.

But Europe, especially France, seems to be Americanizing its conception of poverty, because a big gap now exists between the poverty levels of white people and minorities.

37. The Commission stresses the need to further address poverty, exclusion, social injustice and the gap in wealth distribution.

The acute poverty indicator, which takes into consideration not only the gap between the poor and the poverty threshold but also the inequality among those living below the poverty line, was 8.9 per cent in 2004.

One is the gap in opportunity this gap that President Clinton last night called uneven, unfair and unsustainable and, out of that, comes poverty and illiteracy and disease and all these evils that we see around us.

The negative consequences of poverty and other forms of adversity are not inevitable. The gap between what we know and what we do is growing and increasingly unconscionable.

Nonetheless, hundreds of millions of people remain in poverty, and there has been only a little progress in reducing the gap between the least developed countries and the rest.

Asia s Leadership Gap

Mind the Gap

See that gap there? There's a gap, and it affects all the other stories.

The result has been a widening gap between rich and poor, together with a commensurate rise in the type of urban poverty that so bedevils cities like Rio de Janeiro.

The good news is that the gap between the emerging and advanced countries has narrowed greatly in the last three decades. Nonetheless, hundreds of millions of people remain in poverty, and there has been only a little progress in reducing the gap between the least developed countries and the rest.

For the alien race in Stephen R. Donaldson's The Gap Cycle, see Amnion (Gap Cycle).

High taxation supports comprehensive national health care, education, pensions, and other social services, resulting in low levels of poverty and a relatively narrow income gap between the richest and poorest households.

The Transatlantic Growth Gap

Closing Europe s Strategy Gap

Closing Asia s Security Gap

Closing the Skills Gap

The gap filling role

Then the gap is divided by the shrink factor again, the list is sorted with this new gap, and the process repeats until the gap is 1.

It provoked the missile gap.

This huge gap spurs migration.

In the government sector, the unadjusted pay gap is 15 , and the adjusted pay gap was 3 in 2000.

But, critical poverty this slide is from a presentation I gave not that long ago. Gapminder.org tells the story of the gap between Africa and the rest of the world in terms of health care.

What separates developing countries from developed countries is not only the gap in resources, but also a gap in knowledge.

If the cleft extends into the maxillary alveolar ridge, the gap is usually corrected by filling the gap with bone tissue.

Mr. Saeed (Sudan) said that, despite all the efforts made nationally and internationally in the ten years since Copenhagen, the gap remained vast between objectives and achievements in counteracting poverty and unemployment and ensuring social integration.

Economic growth rates reveal the same gap.

The gap, instead, reflects recent historical choices.

However, there is a large financing gap.

The gap in technological capabilities is increasing.

The economic and social policies adopted by the Government did not lead to the necessary progress in decreasing the inequality gap, confronting extreme poverty, decreasing illiteracy and unemployment rates and increasing access to health care and housing.

Economic and social policies adopted by the Government did not lead to the necessary progress to narrow the inequality gap, confront extreme poverty, diminish levels of illiteracy and unemployment and increase access to health care and housing.

But the digital divide is no immutable gap.

The gender gap in schooling remains a concern.

The G 20 should fill that gap urgently.

The gap between the two camps is vast.

The IMF can help to fill the gap.

The adjusted pay gap cannot be fully explained.

However, that is only a stop gap measure.

The gap between Shanghai and the United Kingdom and the United States is as big as the gap between the U.K. and the U.S.