The route of slavery was an integral part of the flagrant exploitation and the impoverishment of Africa.

Desertification has accelerated the process of impoverishment which, in turn, has aggravated the problem of desertification.

After all, beggar thy neighbor policies will succeed only in making us all beggars.

The theory goes that if poor countries simply adopt the right policies, and if they follow the advice of rich countries via institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank, all will be right.

This strategy is doomed to fail, however, because it misunderstands many of the root causes of impoverishment.

It is a process which will entail increased poverty, and can lead to a serious disruption of social life in the short term.

Because of rural impoverishment and a drought earlier this year, dire hunger afflicts millions of people.

They rightly want the downward trend in the development and impoverishment of their people to come to an end.

The United Nations should identify not only the social but also the economic causes of the impoverishment of the developing world.

The programme is designed to provide assistance in everyday life and end the calamitous cycle of addiction and impoverishment.

The Committee further notes the problems related to the transition economy and that the situation of children has worsened as a consequence of growing poverty and increasing unemployment.

Noting with deep concern the danger of an increase in poverty, in particular in rural areas, due to the conflicts, loss of human lives and destruction of the economic and social infrastructure,

Since the adoption of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development and Agenda 21, the poor had continued to grow poorer and environmental degradation had also continued.

However, under conditions of economic destabilization, galloping inflation and further impoverishment of a considerable part of the population, the political problems in the orientations of young people are being forced into the background.

Though the last Decade was earmarked to eradicate poverty, what is seen on the ground today, is most developing countries in a quagmire of debt and impoverishment.

According to a report by Human Rights Watch Americas, quot massive internal displacement is an important cause of homelessness, increased impoverishment and misery in Haiti.

The Palestinian Authority and the newly elected municipalities in Gaza face a deeply impoverished population in which tribal and family ties have strongly re emerged.

In our present highly interlinked world, Africa apos s marginalization, the poverty and desperation of its people, of its youth, cannot be walled in within the continent apos s boundaries.

It is an unfair system of distribution that stems from a distorted matrix whose dominant force is a ruthless thirst for profit and in which growing wealth is based on the expansion and deepening of poverty.

However, the increasing pauperization of large parts of the world demands the taking of urgent and decisive action to offer those people prospects for change and improvement in their daily living conditions.

Given the dynamic nature of poverty creation, however, and the short time left in which to achieve the internationally agreed poverty reduction target, there was a need for more proactive responses by the international community.

Simply put, North Koreans are not as isolated as they once were, and have a growing appreciation of their impoverishment, owing primarily to greater trade and closer connections with booming China.

12. The application of the comparable worth approach might be the basis for a fundamental transformation of women apos s lives by enhancing women apos s capacity to support themselves and their dependants in a time of deepening female poverty.

Among these, many live in situations of legal, economic and social limbo as well as extreme impoverishment greatly impeding their human development and the exercise of countless human rights.

The declining prices of rice on the international market since 1995 had caused a sharp drop in the return from rice production, which had been one of the major causes of poverty and hardship for many small farmers in developing countries.

With the rapid impoverishment of the employed and of the population in general it is estimated that in 1993 75 per cent of the available funds was spend on food on the average, and as much as 90 per cent in households in the lowest income brackets.

High unemployment, particularly among young people, locks Roma in a vicious cycle of impoverishment and exclusion, further driving down living standards and leaving many in marginalized settlements without access to electricity, clean water, or other basic utilities.