How do we measure poverty?
This growing poverty in the midst of growing poverty constitutes a permanent menace to peace.
Poverty is what I'm writing about and I had my first contact with poverty in this slum.
Other traditional radical goals - such as the "abolition of poverty" - are, in contrast to this one, truly utopian, for man, simply by exerting his will, cannot abolish poverty.
It remains a fact that nearly half the population lives in terrifying poverty.
although his family has a humble house and lives in poverty, they do not begrudge money spent on books.
Today, any poverty in the world is caused by an absence of capitalism, not the existence of capitalism.
But how do we do this in areas where so many people are living in poverty, turning to the bounty of the forests for their very survival?
Among them is Harmony Banes, raised in poverty in what she describes as an abusive family without love by a mother who was eventually certified as clinically insane because of drug addiction.
Ragged clothing infers poverty.
Being out of work causes poverty.
It was poverty that reduced her to prostitution.
Public officials in the poverty-striken mountainous areas can quicken their paces to be out of poverty only by forwarding thought, spreading thought, opening thought and humanistic thought.
Do large families make economic sense in an environment of widespread poverty and financial insecurity?
Whether the lure of such alternatives or poverty is what is causing people to cancel their subscriptions is not clear.
In 2000 the United Nations adopted the Millennium Development Goals to be achieved by 2015. One of these is halving the number of people living in extreme poverty.
Muddled thinking is dangerous because it can lead to policies that punish both virtue and vice, that interfere with our inalienable right to pursue happiness, and lead to more, not less, poverty.
He brought himself to poverty.
laziness travels so slowly,that poverty soon overtakes him.
The government has pledged itself to wage a war against poverty and disease.
But at least in the neighborhoods where I grew up, and in poor black neighborhoods today, there is kind of what I call spiritual poverty, that is poverty of the spirit.
The encouraging progress made in these areas in turn galvanized TB efforts in developed and non-poverty areas, therefore promoting balanced development of TB services across the nation.
Suffering from poverty; miserably poor.
-- Making poverty alleviation for the disabled an important part of the state's poverty alleviation program. The state makes unified arrangements to implement poverty alleviation work for the disabled.
For many diseases strongly associated with poverty, smart product design helps circumvent weaknesses in delivery systems.
This is a shocking statistic, with huge implications for human suffering, health systems, health budgets, and the drive to reduce poverty.
-- Strengthening the building of the poverty alleviation service system of the China Disabled Persons' Federation at the grassroots level to provide prompt and effective service for the rural disabled.
Wilson appreciates Moynihan for shedding light on ghetto poverty.
They will exacerbate existing vulnerabilities and they have the potential to throw countries back into the poverty trap.
Since the beginning of the 1990s, considering the reality of the poverty-stricken areas, China has paid special attention to making aid accessible to individual villages and households, as an important measure.
One reason for persistent female poverty is job segregation.
Families who subsist on food stamps and live at or below the poverty level can't afford supplements, and there are many such families.
Destroy your nature and you increase poverty and insecurity.
Urgent action is needed to reduce risks of natural disasters such as landslides and to alleviate poverty among the 1.4 million people forced to relocate, the State Council reported.
Though furnished with free medicine and education, some20% of Bhutanese live below the poverty line.
Poverty relief organs should be stable, and their leading ability and ability of coordinated management in the poverty relief work should be raised.
The same interventions that can help attaining the Millennium Development Goal of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger.
One usually associates poverty with misery.
Crime often exists with poverty.
