Poverty Alleviation Poverty alleviation is a high priority of the Government of Pakistan.

Many non Annex I Parties reported that poverty reduction is the overriding developing priority due to their high levels of poverty.

Unemployment and poverty rates are very high.

One consequence of the poverty created by bad governance is the high prevalence of HIV AIDS.

The number of people living in extreme poverty remains high.

Economic growth by itself is not sufficient, and high growth rates alone will not guarantee significant poverty reduction.

158. The Committee is deeply concerned at the high level of poverty which is affecting most of the country apos s inhabitants.

High level segment Economic growth and poverty reduction in the 1990s

As a consequence, a high percentage of the country's population, 45.8 per cent, is living in poverty, while 15.1 per cent of the total population lives in extreme poverty.

In this context, it is important to remember that rapid economic growth and high and sustained levels of employment facilitate poverty reduction and are critical to attaining poverty eradication objectives.

Measures aimed at reducing poverty should take into account the linkages between high poverty levels, illiteracy and the potential for corruption.

The result, however, is that everybody loses. Schools underperform poverty remains high and the resulting high rates of unemployment and crime impose huge financial and social costs on US society.

For some Parties, a high percentage of the population live in absolute poverty.

Poverty levels remain alarmingly high over 1 billion people live in impoverished conditions.

330. The Committee notes the persistence of a high poverty level and of situations of extreme poverty, with 57 per cent of the Dominican population living below the poverty line.

397. From 1981 to 1991, infant and child mortality rates in rural areas, particularly in the departments where poverty is concentrated, remained high.

High levels of poverty and illiteracy and discrimination against the indigenous population and those living in poverty contribute to widespread violations of human rights.

Feminized poverty also poses a barrier to treatment given the high cost of antiretrovirals (ARV).

74. This progress notwithstanding, high unemployment and widespread poverty persist in Africa and Latin America.

The number of young women engaging in prostitution, especially among internally displaced persons, is rising because of the high level of unemployment and poverty.

238. The political commitment to poverty alleviation and reducing malnutrition is high and needs time and judicious informed policies to materialize in actual deeds.

The Committee is concerned that notwithstanding the high level of poverty among women, and especially of women headed households, no affirmative action measures are being taken to support women s efforts to break the cycle of poverty.

Because most of those high fertility countries are among the least developed countries where levels of extreme poverty are high, the advantages that can be brought by the demographic bonus can also contribute to the reduction of poverty.

Despite the global decline in absolute poverty, the goal of redressing disproportionately high poverty levels among women and their insufficient access to economic resources remained elusive.

So, is it poverty?

Poverty is a killer.

The Committee expresses its concern at the high and increasing number of children living in poverty and extreme poverty in the State party, especially in rural areas.

The Millennium Development Goals placed high priority on the mobilization of all efforts aimed at poverty eradication.

25. Despite significant economic growth in some African countries, poverty remains pervasive, urban unemployment is high, underemployment is common and many subsist in low productivity, informal sector jobs in all countries.

Relative poverty, however, is significant.

Poverty is odds with happiness.

Guaranteed poverty is not security.

The expectations are high. Let us take on the challenge, and let our legacy be no more poverty.

Parties recognized that poverty leads to high dependence on natural resources and the environment resulting in their overexploitation.

Such programmes seek to reduce poverty directly through high labour content technologies and indirectly through productivity enhancing infrastructure.

The Territory enjoys a relatively high standard of living, with no visible signs of poverty or gender inequality.

Their exposure to potential economic shocks, which threaten to push them below the general poverty line, is very high (World Bank, report No. 25343, p. 46, vol. II).

Most of this growth is occurring in developing countries rather than in high income developed countries when combined with poverty and destructuralization, it will result in enormous problems.

Finally, high finance allows for portfolio diversification, so that individual investors can seek high expected returns without being forced to assume large, idiosyncratic risks of bankruptcy and poverty.

Involving those living in poverty in poverty reduction processes is a long term process.

Based on the research on health conditions by the national experts, published papers, the World Bank poverty study in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the World Health Organization report, it has become fully clear that the poverty rate in Bosnia and Herzegovina is high.

The issue is not urban poverty.

There is no freedom in poverty.

We only ranked high when it comes to poverty, corruption, lack of freedom of speech, lack of political activism.

The high vulnerability and the lack of empowerment and representation of women are other key dimensions when fighting poverty.