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.

50 percent of our residents live at or below the 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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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

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.

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.

UNIDO's ongoing integrated programme in Kenya was fully in line with the Government's Poverty Alleviation and Wealth Creation Strategy launched in 2003.

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. In fact, taking into account inflation in the United States, the poverty line should have been raised to 1.45 per day in 2005.

Current estimates of Liberia's socio economic indicators place the population at 3.4 million, of which 80 per cent is below the poverty line.

Some Parties reported that more than 60 per cent of their total population live below the poverty line (Bolivia, Haiti, Malawi, Sudan, Uganda).

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

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.

This is what poverty line is 80 percent of the family income is just to cover the energy needs, the food for the day.

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

Some 44 per cent of the population now live below the poverty line, as opposed to 38 per cent at the end of 1999.

Similarly, despite the economic achievements of the Hong Kong SAR, the Committee remains concerned at the existence of child poverty among vulnerable populations such as the unemployed, immigrants and single parent families and at the lack of an established poverty line, which hinders the formulation of appropriate policies to combat poverty.

Because the blue line is a better line. The red line is way downhill, the blue line is a good line.

Papua is Indonesia's poorest province, where 28 of people live below the poverty line and with some of the worst infant mortality and literacy rates in Asia.

Despite their shortcomings, income measures are useful in gaining a better understanding of the extent of poverty and vulnerability worldwide. But the World Bank s poverty line of 1.25 per day (in purchasing power parity terms), which is used in measuring progress toward the MDGs poverty reduction target, is not the only relevant threshold.

The Committee recommends that in the Hong Kong SAR, the State party establish a poverty line and develop appropriate policies to combat child poverty that address widening income disparities while expanding access to social welfare benefits to all vulnerable populations, including new immigrants.