And last summer, more than 10,000 workers protested for the non payment of wages, for the poor quality of food, and inadequate housing.

In improving housing for the urban poor, Governments can assume two functions facilitating housing provision and improvement by individuals and private entrepreneurs and directly providing affordable housing to the poor.

Approximately 200 people live here in low quality housing conditions.

Providing improved housing and associated services to the urban poor

Most have access to housing of acceptable size and quality at affordable prices.

Public housing agencies could promote better housing by providing credit to the poor, who usually lack access to the formal housing finance market, through, for example, affordable mortgages and microcredit schemes.

The metadata supporting the MDG database is of unacceptably poor quality.

In rural settings, a direct link between housing quality and malaria transmission risks has been demonstrated.

Their housing conditions are generally poor, whether they are in collective accommodation or rented flats.

Promoting pro poor policies is important for improving access of the poor to adequate housing and to public services such as water and sanitation services, which require inputs from the public sector.

It follows that poverty, meaning poor socio economic conditions, poor living conditions (housing and accommodation, work and general environment) and an unhealthy way of life influence directly a nation and its health potential.

Rural area is characterized by poverty related problems unresolved housing conditions, unemployment, poor infrastructure, the inexistence of institutions that would provide assistance.

Poverty impact the demonstrable effect of the project on improving the quality of life of poor communities and individuals

There is a lot of people who think about all these poor people, Oh there's terrible things. We've got to fix their housing.

This is achieved through the provision of credit for enterprise, household consumption and housing needs that will improve the quality of life of householders, small business owners and microentrepreneurs, sustain jobs, decrease unemployment, reduce poverty, empower women and provide income generating opportunities for Palestine refugees and other proximate poor and marginal groups.

Public private partnerships could be a useful tool for meeting the needs of the urban and rural poor for housing, education, transportation and services.

Targeted and transparent subsidies have been employed successfully to meet housing and service needs of the poor that cannot be met by the market.

The petroleum products are poor in quality due to high sulfur content and become one of the causes of environmental pollution.

According to Iran, the differences in prices were due to the poor quality of the crops produced in the Southern Provinces.

The case concerned Ms. Grootboom and others who were living in extremely poor conditions on illegally occupied private land earmarked for formal low cost housing.

It relied on modern and environmentally sound techniques in the planning of urban development and construction of housing which met rigorous quality standards in rural and urban areas.

The quality in healthcare services remains poor, and access to them was difficult for women, especially in the mountainous and rural areas.

The results of the survey show that almost a third of Estonian households live in poor conditions or in conditions not suitable for their housing needs.

While various countries have implemented free basic education, there is a sense that it is of poor quality and inaccessible to many youth.

This is what determines the quality of the life we've lived not whether we've been rich or poor, famous or unknown, healthy or suffering.

Fourth, the inadequate volume and poor quality of ODA had compromised its true potential, resulting in a misguided perception that aid would not work.

The fight against poverty, the provision of safe drinking water, sanitation and housing were interlinked and investments should be made in plans and programmes to benefit the poor.

The themes of the discussion on human settlements focused on providing improved housing and associated services to the urban poor creating jobs and promoting local entrepreneurship and developing finance institutions and financial products suitable to the financial needs of the urban poor.

The themes of the discussion on human settlements focused on providing improved housing and associated services to the urban poor creating jobs and promoting local entrepreneurship and developing finance institutions and financial products suitable to the financial needs of the urban poor.

Meanwhile, enormous investment did not bring about the corresponding economic benefit, which was a key factor leading to poor quality and benefit in economic growth.

This suggests that companies offering cheap, poor quality, unbranded products are unlikely to succeed in the long term. For apparel consumers, for example, quality is second only to price when choosing a store, and second only to fashion when choosing a specific item.

The range of leading causes of death has been slightly altered in comparison to pervious years, which is most probably the consequence of poor quality mortality data.

The programme will focus on implementing the outreach, product development and capacity building through a range of business, consumer and housing loan products that will improve the enterprise, household and housing conditions of Palestine refugees and other groups of proximate poor in four of the Agency's five areas of operation.

Housing

My wish is that TED assist us in our work and help us to build a high quality rural health system in a poor country, Rwanda, that can be a model for Africa, and indeed, for any poor country anywhere in the world.

The poor quality of infrastructure imposes heavy costs on the producers of tradable goods and on the rest of the population, given the low population density in Africa.

They want higher quality services, better housing, and good infrastructure (especially transport). And they resent to the point of mobilizing in the streets any hint that a clique at the top is barring their way.

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Furthermore, the poor quality of some education, resulting from irrelevant and obsolete curricula, overcrowded classrooms, untrained teachers and gender discrimination, cause high dropout and repetition rates especially among girls.

Community infrastructure will support, in the form of grants on a cost sharing basis, small scale community infrastructure sub projects to improve the quality of life of the poor.

Regarding human settlements, the Commission called on Governments, with assistance from the international community, to design pro poor policies with a focus on tenure security and access to affordable serviced land in order to improve access of the poor, in particular slum dwellers, to decent and affordable housing and basic services.

And the problem of poor vision, is actually not just a health problem, it's also an educational problem, and it's an economic problem, and it's a quality of life problem.