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.

The absolute poverty line is determined by the value of spending of each individual, irrespective of place and time of living.

Progress in reducing extreme poverty lagged behind in the ECLAC region, resulting in the increase of the absolute number of extremely poor people by 3 million between 1990 and 2004.

The aggregate poverty rate of those six cities is 17 .

In the US, the rate of relative poverty exceeds 20 .

Using comparable data and definitions provided by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the US has a poverty rate of 17.3 , roughly twice Sweden s poverty rate of 8.4 .

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

Life expectancy was low, and poverty was a serious problem.

According to the latest available data, the incidence of acute poverty is highest among the rural population (32 per cent), while acute poverty in urban areas was 9 per cent in 2004.

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.

Hard core poverty is set to be eliminated by 2010, with the overall poverty rate falling to 2.8 .

The extreme poverty rate has declined significantly between 1999 and 2010.

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

4. Reaffirms that the existence of widespread absolute poverty inhibits the full and effective enjoyment of human rights and renders democracy and popular participation fragile

4. Reaffirms that the existence of widespread absolute poverty inhibits the full and effective enjoyment of human rights and renders democracy and popular participation fragile

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.

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When the Government came to power in 2003, the extreme poverty rate was 20.1 per cent.

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The rate of incidence of TB increased in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the war and it is directly connected with the increase of poverty.

We are close to achieving two more goals the reduction of extreme poverty and under five child mortality rates.

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India has experienced slower income growth than has China, which partly explains its higher poverty rate.

Cuts to child allowances and unemployment pay have caused a consistent rise in the poverty rate, and government income transfers designed to combat it make an even smaller dent in poverty now than they did in the 1980s.

However, as of 2012, an estimated 11.7 of the population lived below the poverty line and the official open unemployment rate was 6.1 .

Non money metric measures of poverty provide a different perspective on living conditions other than the income measure.

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Extreme poverty, or absolute poverty, was originally defined by the United Nations in 1995 as a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information.

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With that strategy, we aim, by 2009, to reduce the unemployment rate from 9.5 per cent to 5.1 per cent and to cut the poverty rate by half, to 8.1 percent.

Reducing the prevalence of HIV AIDS would also contribute to the achievement of other development goals, including the reduction of poverty, the reduction of child mortality and the reduction of maternal mortality.

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.

The poverty rate is 59 61 , and almost 25 of the population lives in extreme poverty.

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The child poverty rate decreased from 17.6 percent in 2000 to 12.9 percent in 2002.

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.

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

It ended 150 years of absolutism under the Chakri Dynasty and almost 700 years of absolute rule of kings over Thai history.

But faster growing East Asia has experienced significantly greater progress, with the poverty rate falling from 77 to 14 over the same period.

Africa s poverty rate in 2003 exceeds that of the next poorest region, South Asia, by 17 percentage points.

The World Bank avoids this problem by assuming that the poverty rate of any country without such data matches the region s average.