I mean, it's not easy you see a lot of poverty.

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).

It has been estimated that world wide one out of every five people live below the poverty line.

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

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

In the developing countries, the main problem is the survival of the majority of families, who live below the poverty line.

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

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

More than 90 percent of the population lives below the federal poverty line.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 definition of an appropriate nutritional standard and its measurement are, therefore, of importance for determining the level and magnitude of poverty.

Angola has adopted its Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, aimed at improving the macroeconomic framework and structural and social policies in order to foster growth and reduce poverty.

The Committee regrets the absence of disaggregated statistical data on the extent of poverty in the State party's report, particularly among refugees and the immigrant population, and notes that the State party has yet to adopt an official poverty line, which would enable the State party to define the extent of poverty and to monitor and evaluate progress in alleviating poverty.

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.

It is disturbed by the increase in the number of persons living in poverty and extreme poverty.

There is growing recognition that there need be no conflict between poverty reduction and the attainment of growth objectives.

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.

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.

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.

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.

National monitoring systems should include household surveys to assess the status of poverty and be able to assess progress.

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.

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.

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.

The Agenda apos s first objectives should be to eliminate poverty, meet peoples apos basic needs and improve their standard of living.

Significant reductions in poverty could best be accomplished through the creation of wealth, not simply through its redistribution.

Many of the talks yesterday talked about improving the quality of life, and reducing poverty, and essentially increasing life expectancy all around the globe.

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.