The number of people living in extreme poverty remains high.

Some 10 million of them still live in poverty.

Fully 20 of the population lives in dire poverty.

As a consequence, more than a billion people continue to live in absolute poverty.

This testimony illustrates the lessons that pain has taught those who experience extreme poverty.

Harmonize efforts between aid agencies and economic authorities, including the World Bank and the WTO.

But the evictions took place in 2001, and the villagers are still living in extreme poverty.

All the surveys and studies conducted in Nicaragua, whether by the Government or by private institutions, indicate that poverty is highly concentrated in rural areas, which are home to 61.7 per cent of the country's non indigent poor population and 76 per cent of its indigent population.

Least Developed Countries in Africa continue to have the highest proportion of people living in extreme poverty.

Yet, as we speak, more than 1 billion people continue to live in extreme poverty, and tens of thousands die from preventable diseases every day.

These testimonies were shared by international delegates as well as others speaking on behalf of those living in extreme poverty within the United States.

(a) Continue to strengthen its policies and programmes to combat the factors responsible for the increasing number of children living in extreme poverty

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.

Notable in this connection is that the number of people living in extreme poverty in sub Saharan Africa has doubled.

As a result, the percentage of Africa s population living in extreme poverty increased from 41.6 in 1981 to 46.9 in 2001.

According to the World Bank, roughly 1.4 billion people live in extreme poverty (earning less than 1.25 day), and 2.6 billion in moderate poverty (less than 2 day).

The central region has the highest rates of poverty (41 per cent) and extreme poverty (57.1 per cent).

The World Youth Report 2005 states that sub Saharan Africa is home to large numbers of young people living in extreme 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.

Given that 70 per cent of people in extreme poverty live in rural areas, renewed focus should be placed on rural and agricultural development.

The case concerned Ms. Grootboom and others who were living in extremely poor conditions on illegally occupied private land earmarked for formal low cost housing.

There should be systemic and institutional changes that enable people living in extreme poverty to have a stronger voice in the implementation and evaluation of poverty eradication strategies.

Globally, three quarters of people living in extreme poverty are in rural areas and depend on agriculture and related activities for their livelihoods.

It is among the fastest growing regions in the world, but it is also home to the largest concentration of people living in debilitating poverty, conflict, and human misery.

People who live in conditions of poverty and extreme poverty have a key role to play in reminding us of the very serious violations of their human rights, as they show us the myriad of their daily efforts in defense of human rights and human dignity.

However, this is not the case in Guatemala, where poverty is clearly widespread and acute, with 21.5 per cent of the population living in extreme poverty.

At the same time, India remains very much an underdeveloped country, with hundreds of millions of illiterate, destitute citizens.

Invites the independent expert to pay special attention to the concrete experiences of involvement by people living in extreme poverty in the political decision making and social processes

Such a plan would hasten achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, primarily by halving the number of people living in extreme poverty by 2015.

Needless to say, neither candidate thought it worthwhile to put forward a proposal to assist the more than one billion people living in extreme poverty.

By contrast, the corresponding MDG was to halve the proportion of the world s people who are suffering from hunger (as well as of those living in extreme poverty).

Today, in the twenty first century, thousands of millions of people still live in the most extreme poverty, lacking the basic requirements for a decent life, in abysmal hygiene and health conditions.

The number of people living in absolute poverty in Africa actually rose from 227 million in 1990 to more than 313 million in 2001.

There are over one billion people one in every six people around the world who live in extreme poverty, subsisting on less than 1 a day.

In both countries, the proportion of persons living in extreme poverty is significant, but the proportion in China (17 per cent) is about half that in India (35 per cent).

The target of halving the proportion of people in extreme poverty is within reach, but mainly because of economic progress in China and India.

An estimated 1.4 billion people were still living in extreme poverty in 2005, and the number is likely to be higher today, owing to the global economic crisis.

At least one billion very poor people, 20 of humanity, are daily denied basic rights to adequate food and clean water.

Fourth, far more must to be done to unlock the tremendous human and economic potential of the world s 1.4 billion people living in dire poverty and without meaningful opportunity.

Of the 221 million classified as poor, 19 per cent are in a state of extreme poverty.

Perhaps people respond more generously to the victims of natural disasters than they do to those in extreme poverty because, after a natural disaster, we tend not to blame the victims.

Between 1999 and 2002, the incidence of poverty rose from 43.8 to 44.0 per cent, while the ratio of people in extreme poverty stayed at 19.4 per cent.

The family lived in penury. The father died from ill treatment during the Cultural Revolution.

Although good progress in meeting these goals has been made in Asia, in Africa there are now 140 million more people living in extreme poverty than there were in 1990.

For products that drug companies register with the Health Impact Fund, corporations would get the same reward for saving the lives of Africans living in extreme poverty as they would get for saving the lives of wealthy citizens of affluent nations.