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.

Our national targets include a 50 per cent reduction in the number of people living below the poverty line during the period 2001 2010.

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).

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.

All the civilian victims live below the poverty line.

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.

Senegal had recently launched a 10 year national strategy to ensure gender equity, in line with benchmarks established under its poverty reduction strategy and with the Millennium Development Goals.

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

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National poverty reduction strategies

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

In Bhutan, the national poverty indicator includes gender sensitive poverty indicators.

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.

Disaster reduction must be integrated as a matter of priority into national plans and programmes for sustainable development and poverty alleviation, in line with the Hyogo Declaration and its Plan of Action.

Underlining the importance of national ownership and the alignment of poverty reduction strategy papers with the Millennium Development Goals, the secretariats stressed that the CCA UNDAF processes were systematically carried out based on national priorities laid out in poverty reduction strategy papers or similar strategies and in line with the commitments of the Millennium Declaration.

Underlining the importance of national ownership and the alignment of poverty reduction strategy papers with the Millennium Development Goals, the secretariats stressed that the CCA UNDAF processes were systematically carried out based on national priorities laid out in poverty reduction strategy papers or similar strategies and in line with the commitments of the Millennium Declaration.

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.

Our current national focus is in line with that recommendation.

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.

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.

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.

Consultations and participation in national poverty reduction efforts

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.

These targets are in line with European employment policy (National Action Programmes).

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.

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.

Each year, the National Target Programme on poverty reduction and job creation helps 300,000 households escape poverty.

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).

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).

To document indigenous and tribal peoples' own perceptions of poverty and poverty reduction strategies and existing gaps, similarities and contradictions with national poverty reduction efforts.

Now, inside the yellow line here, on the right is that's all national park.

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

In line with the overall principles of ILO work on national poverty reduction strategies processes, ILO has also been examining the specific impact of those processes on indigenous and tribal peoples, as well as the extent to which the peoples have participated in the processes, and the development of the poverty reduction strategy papers.

National poverty reduction strategies and poverty indicators should take into account the cultural specificities of indigenous and tribal peoples.

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.

Wealth creation, sustainable national economies, poverty eradication what are the connections?

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