Tears rolled down her cheeks.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Whereas oil speculators have gained, both the US and global economies have suffered and been pushed closer to recession.

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.

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

If greed dominates, the engine of economic growth will deplete our resources, push the poor aside, and drive us into a deep social, political, and economic crisis. The alternative is a path of political and social cooperation, both within countries and internationally.

If greed dominates, the engine of economic growth will deplete our resources, push the poor aside, and drive us into a deep social, political, and economic crisis.

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.

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

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

They believe that the cause of the economic crisis that left 50 million people in poverty was not lack of regulations in the financial market, but rather the protection of specific sectors of the economy by the government.

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

If extreme poverty is allowed to increase, it will give rise to new problems, including new diseases that will spread from countries that cannot provide adequate health care to those that can.

In this case, there was no serious threat to public security, because the majority of the protesters were ordinary people with their families, angry with their government and disappointed with the politics that had led them to 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.