Poverty in a sentence

Our suggested poverty line implies 33 per cent poor (the higher Rs 2,100 WEF poverty line yields 36 per cent poor).

While urban poverty is a unique challenge, rates of poverty have historically been higher in rural than urban areas.

Then I travelled to India and saw real poverty with millions living on the streets and rural poverty that seemed endless.

We need to exploit what we have to take our people out of energy poverty, and by extension economic poverty.

Communities in which nearly all residents experience poverty have 41 percent less canopy than those with nearly no poverty.

If Fayose brought poverty on his people, your party also capitalised on the poverty level by buying votes?

Churches are not responsible for poverty in Nigeria, neither is it their to lift people out of poverty.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation, an NGO focusing on poverty, more than one in four people in the British capital (27%) live in poverty.

Indeed, of the 15 countries across the world where extreme poverty is rising per World Poverty Clock data, 13 are currently in Africa.

Malaria is not just a disease commonly associated with poverty but also a cause of poverty and a major hindrance to economic development.

While still far too many people are experiencing poverty, this is the first time the poverty rate has dropped below pre-Recession levels.

Poverty: The city has a high poverty rate, with many residents struggling to make ends meet.

Poverty Alleviation policy: An Overview of the Government’s Initiatives to Reduce Poverty.

So who are these non-poor, how is poverty estimated, and what is multidimensional poverty?

Aliero listed youth empowerment to curb unemployment, poverty alleviation to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty as part of the agenda.

Indeed if it doesn't do these two things it is not an anti-poverty program--it is rather a program to sustain, marginally, people in poverty.

His bestselling book, “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City”, argues that “eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty”.

Among these, we have learned that generational poverty is a very complicated issue, but for many families, pathways out of poverty are possible.

Instead of alleviating poverty, Nigeria has emerged the poverty capital of the world.

A poverty assessment in 2005/ 2006 indicated that the fall in banana earnings was the main cause and sustaining factor of poverty in Saint Lucia.