The End of Want?

Moreover, average findings conceal large differences in some countries the poor can benefit from economic growth, in others they may be too deprived to take advantage of it.

One side may be talking about absolute poverty, the other about relative poverty.

The family lived in penury.

The Poverty of Thinking About Poverty

They are living in misery.

I lived in poverty.

She's desperately poor.

But his troubles were not over.

Some 40 of the world s 6.5 billion people live in poverty, and a sixth live in extreme poverty.

Social conditions are abysmal, in line with such poverty.

Many Africans will fall back into desperate poverty.

Yet he dances while people are in poverty.

Millions of people were living in poverty after the earthquake.

Twenty eight percent of the residents of Xochimilco live in extreme poverty.

I am a man of yesterday's culture. I grew up on examples of artists who lived poor and died in poverty, refused money for the sake of painting.

This is Africa. 10 percent the world population, most in poverty.

The number of people living in extreme poverty would fall by 160 million.

But much of central and western China is mired in poverty

A tweet by Christos Pappas, a Greek Golden Dawn member of parliament, proclaimed Long Live ELAM Long Live Golden Dawn

A small event say, an illness in the family can push them back into destitution.

As a cardinal, Lotario wrote De miseria humanae conditionis (On the Misery of the Human Condition).

Religion, we are told, is responsible for violence, oppression, poverty, and many other ills.

Forest resources directly contribute to the livelihoods of 90 of the 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty.

China has no other choice but to pursue sustainable development in order to meet the basic needs of its people and to eradicate poverty.

Indeed, by United Nations standards, China still has 150 million people living in poverty.

He probably knew his sister, Adela, well, as the two were close in age.

Unless and until widespread family planning and modern contraceptive services are established, expanding populations in the Horn of Africa will crash against a harsher future climate.

This lawless legality is all too common in a country where 85 of people live in abject poverty.

Third, the region is already living in extreme poverty, so adverse shocks push it toward calamity.

She died in poverty, poor even among the poor, and was buried in a common grave.

The MDGs focus on some of the world s most pressing development issues, such as poverty, gender, health and basic literacy.

Deeply concerned also at the severe drought affecting Mozambique and other countries of southern Africa, resulting in famine and poverty,

While there, he interacted with a few locals and then jotted down their stories of extreme poverty (RUS) on his blog.

We realise the worthiness of his actions when we learn he lived in poverty because of dire economic situation in country.

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

Noting with interest the extension for a period of two years of the mandate of the independent expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty,

In response to one of the FAQs on its website asking what makes you think we can end extreme poverty?

Indian cities such as Bangalore, Chennai (formerly Madras), Mumbai (formerly Bombay) and Hyderabad are becoming locations for software and hardware exports, the cutting edge of India's modern economy.

Though much of rural India remains impoverished, new dynamic urban based centers of information technology are springing up around the country.

Almost half the labor force is unemployed local industry has collapsed.

The country remains impoverished, ethnically divided, and with collapsed social services after years of military led corruption and plunder.

With more than 40 of Latin America's population living in poverty, Cuba stands out as an example of a country where being poor does not mean a life of squalor.

In poverty one still keeps a kind of innate noble sentiment, while in misery moral collapse is inherent and disastrous.

Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence it had to do with not quite poverty but close.