Access to hospital care for hardship social cases and Palestinians living below the poverty line was half that of those living above the poverty line.

VIVAT truly believes that if the Governments have the political will, most poor people will be able to rise above the poverty line.

Polls and analyses reveal that over 30 per cent of the Bosnia and Herzegovina population is immediately above such a defined general poverty line (with annual spending of KM 3,297, i.e. in a range that is just 50 per cent higher than the general poverty line amount).

There's a marker line called the trim line above our little red illustration there.

That is a general poverty line in Bosnia and Herzegovina (the minimum nutrition needs, i.e. the extreme poverty line, is KM 760 annually per capita).

The fact is that development in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1995 has been largely based on the informal sector, which helped many families to remain above the poverty line.

All the civilian victims live below the poverty line.

As stated above, children are the most exposed to the risk of dropping below the poverty line, as about 56 per cent of the poor live in families with children.

Polls and analyses reveal that over 30 per cent of the Bosnia and Herzegovina population is immediately above such a defined general poverty line (with annual spending of KM 3,297, i.e. in a range that is just 50 per cent higher than the general poverty line amount), and their exposure to potential economic shocks, which threaten to push them below the general poverty line, is considerably high (World Bank, report No. 25343, p. 46, vol. II).

As mentioned in previous reports, official statistics indicate that the proportion of the population living below the poverty line has remained well above 50 per cent in the last six years.

Although the region s poverty rate has decreased by 10 percentage points in the last decade, 180 million people remain below the line, more than 70 million are still indigent, and a large percentage remains just above the poverty line. Thus, soaring food and fuel prices are likely to upset efforts by governments to improve income distribution and social cohesion.

In Yemen, a 1998 survey indicated that 17.6 per cent of its population lived below the food poverty line, whereas 41.8 per cent were below the consumption poverty line.

50 percent of our residents live at or below the poverty line.

That line would have to be 3.8 million miles above this stage.

In other words, 57 per cent of all workers in OPT received monthly wages that did not allow them to sustain a standard family of two adults and four children above the official poverty line.

More than 90 percent of the population lives below the federal poverty line.

In my part of the world, too many people live below the poverty line.

Sometimes they don't even have enough food, and they live below the poverty line.

The national poverty gap, the average person's level of consumption below the poverty line, is 29 per cent, while the depth of poverty is concentrated in the rural areas.

Critics argue that, for methodological reasons, the PPP based poverty line misrepresents the prevalence of poverty worldwide. For example, the three rounds of the World Bank s International Comparison Program that have been conducted so far have each defined the poverty line differently, underscoring the weakness of the current measure.

More than one billion people still live below the extreme poverty line of one dollar per day, and 20,000 die from poverty each day.

The Committee also regrets the absence of an official poverty line that would enable the State party to define the extent of poverty and to monitor and evaluate progress in alleviating poverty.

So supplements above this line are worth investigating, but only for the conditions listed below, and then the supplements below the line are perhaps not worth investigating.

Considering the limited availability of data in Bosnia and Herzegovina for determining absolute and relative poverty, we opted for the absolute poverty line as the most suitable instrument for poverty definition and monitoring.

In addition, gender mainstreaming became a service line (1.6) under poverty and the achievement of the MDGs.

The trainees must come form families living under the poverty line and mostly from female headed households.

He further noted that the assistance efforts were still not reaching all those below the snow line and that an estimated 200,000 people remained above the snow line.

The Committee also recommends the State party to adopt an official poverty line, which would enable the State party to define the extent of poverty and to monitor and evaluate progress in alleviating poverty.

It was estimated that 23 per cent of households in Palestine fell below the poverty line in 1998, with an additional 14 per cent in deep poverty.

LONDON Most rich countries now have millions of working poor people whose jobs do not pay enough to keep them above the poverty line, and whose wages therefore have to be subsidized by the state. These subsidies take the form of tax credits.

The Committee notes with concern that 10.6 per cent of the Serbian population and 12.2 per cent of the Montenegrin population currently live below the poverty line and that another 25,000 persons in Serbia would fall below the poverty line if it were increased slightly.

The first Parikrma school started in a slum where there were 70,000 people living below the poverty line.

Its activities also include training volunteer social scientists for the operation of the telephone help line mentioned above.

According to the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, the sole frame of reference for economic and social development, 63 per cent of the population lives below the poverty line and 34 per cent lives in extreme poverty.

The acute poverty indicator, which takes into consideration not only the gap between the poor and the poverty threshold but also the inequality among those living below the poverty line, was 8.9 per cent in 2004.

Approximately half of the Palestinian population lived below the official poverty line, and health care and education had deteriorated substantially.

These bankrupt women are better educated than their male counterparts most have some college and more than half own their own homes. What tipped them from middle class lifestyles to incomes just above the poverty line were likely to have been one or all of three factors.

Already, 77.3 per cent of Palestinians (more than 1 million people) in the Gaza Strip live below the poverty line, with more than 300,000 of them in deep poverty (i.e. barely surviving).

Despite the good economic performance, there has also been no appreciable improvement in income poverty over the past decade, and approximately 36 per cent of Mongolians still live under the poverty line.

Double digit food price inflation has been accompanied by debate about the share of Indians living below the poverty line, and, indeed, where the poverty line should be drawn. Official statistics use an average daily income of 32 rupees ( 0.57) a day to separate the merely poor from the desperately impoverished.

Groups under the poverty line are most often children, persons with a low education level, the elderly and the rural population.

The absolute poverty line is determined by the value of spending of each individual, irrespective of place and time of living.

The proposal is in line with the strategic priority to enhance national policy in programme countries indicated in paragraph 7 above.

Women are 46.3 per cent of the total unemployed population. The Poverty Assessment Study based on data collected for the living standards pool (LSMS) conducted by a World Bank expert team in cooperation with domestic experts indicates, in a preliminary phase, that a general poverty line in Bosnia and Herzegovina amounts to KM 760 (minimal nutrition needs, i.e. the extreme poverty line) annually per capita.

It highlighted the importance of handling vulnerability to achieve a sustainable reduction in poverty in line with the first Millennium Development Goal.