poverty

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.

To decide how much the Mapuches are owed and the best way to help them emerge from their poverty, Chile urgently needs a national debate.

This progress has greatly improved the prospects for growth and for a substantial reduction in poverty over the next decade.

Thanks to four years of annual economic growth of over 8%, poverty and unemployment have halved since he took office in 2003 (see chart 2).

"She's a quiet one, " he thought; "she's grown up in poverty, and I am marrying for the sake of my motherless children. "

She died in poverty in Paris after using what wealth and influence she had in saving the children of Loyalists from the wroth of Cornwall.

"I think dealing with development and poverty around the world is going to be a critical component of our foreign policy, " he added.

But even in quite poor countries, a different concept of poverty also seems to creep in, the authors argue.

Poverty is often linked in the public mind with dependency.

We may first think of the distance between the Rich and the Poor, but why are the poor always in the state of poverty?

That may seem counterintuitive for a bicycle maker trying to shed the link between its product and poverty, but the campaign worked.

Poverty is usually part of the problem, but it's not the only problem.

The extra funds are to help with the speed and efficiency of the bank's poverty alleviation efforts.

The grim figure leaves no doubt that serious pain awaits in the form of increased poverty and unemployment.

There has never been a more urgent need for results in the global fight against poverty.

But their efforts have proved that reform is possible, even in a city that has tended to blame poverty and racism for its appalling schools.

The country, a declining communist industrial power when he took control, fell into abject poverty under his rule.

Despite poverty and great odds, they were supporting themselves and their families and trying to find new ways to improve their lives.

The IIED, based in London, commissioned the research as part of a broader programme to examine the links between biodiversity and poverty.

These figures suggest that, at school at least, black people's problem is not so much race as poverty.

For many people, there seems to be no escape from poverty; in other words, they are poor, and they have no hope that this will ever change.

One Chinese web portal devoted a special page to reports on the poverty belt, with a headline "so close and yet so far" .

The effect of the land enclosure was to leave the poor peasants in a vicious circle of poverty.

If you know how to deal with that, then you'll be able to handle problems of war and poverty and conflicts.

The idea behind Project Pyramid was to give students the tools and knowledge with which to apply business solutions to poverty alleviation.

They had known the sort of poverty where there was not enough to eat, and each day was filled with grinding labour.

He said he had been impelled to crime by poverty.

The system that is so good at churning out Olympic medalists seems to be even better at producing poverty-stricken retired athletes.

On average, one child out of every eight living in an OECD country in 2005 was living in poverty.

Not such an unusual ambition for many girls these days, except that just a few years ago, Julieth faced a future of only poverty and abuse.

But ethnicity combined with poverty can be a barrier: two-thirds of out-of-school girls around the world belong to ethnic minority groups.

But Lizi became to know only learning can help her to leave the hardship and poverty.

"For poverty, for the environment, for sustainability, we have to work together, " she said.

He said the crisis puts at risk recent hard-won gains in faster economic growth, lower poverty and greater political stability.

She spoke fiercely and freely about racism, poverty and sexism in a way that would have been impossible for a sitting president at the time.

China's embrace of globalization has been a great boon for China and the world. It has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.

It is possible to have economic development without significant job creation, which then leads to lesser impact on poverty reduction.

That such a potentially super-rich country as ours has been brought to a state of such poverty!

But proximity seems to be teaching well-off cariocas that abandonment is no solution for poverty and violence.

Africa missed out on the manufacturing revolution that lifted East Asia's economies out of poverty and into prosperity.

He had never looked down on Mr. Harding on account of his recent poverty.

For a measure that could end absolute poverty worldwide, it hardly seems like too much to ask.

An Jinpeng was born in a poverty stricken family, and his father was seriously ill, so his mother had to do all the farm work.

One economist said the significance of the poverty figures should not be exaggerated.

Wang straight constantly poverty, for prosperity, from temple be eunuchs, trying to hack asymptotic at the palace of letters.

Through years of exploration, we have found a road of poverty alleviation through development by proceeding from China's realities.

This being the case, they're caught up in a poverty trap and can't get out of it.

There I will provide for you, lest you and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty; for there are still five years of famine.

They project substantial declines in absolute poverty - though by no means an eradication of it-by the turn of the century .

We are called with increasing urgency to eradicate what he identified as the triple evils: poverty, racism, violence, " he said. "

He said that such a so-called "Tobin tax" could redistribute bank profits to help fight world poverty and climate change.

The darling of his desires was to be a doctor, but poverty had decreed that he should be nothing higher than a village schoolmaster.

But it says countries with high levels of poverty and underdevelopment will be the least prepared to deal with them.

Our concern is that we see women who work two or three jobs who managed to get themselves out of poverty, but at a very high cost.

The report reveals major declines in household income, a rise in poverty and a massive population that still has no health insurance.

Why, with your generous gift, I was able to invest the money and pull myself out of my poverty.

The Bank's economists have also scaled back their estimates of how much trade reduces poverty.

Poverty campaign groups might also be more enthusiastic if the benefits of climate policies were shared out in a more progressive manner.

one person in two in what had been a broadly middle-class society found themselves below the poverty line.

"You cannot beat poverty without putting women at the center of your development strategies, " she said.

They want to see what we were able to do with the most poverty-ridden section of the United States.

Poverty is often regarded primarily as an economic problem which can be alleviated by sending money.

The bank has also begun to look beyond policies at the deep, social "institutions" that underpin[10] prosperity or poverty.

Perhaps, relief: that the dark decades of soaring population growth, inching economic growth and intractable poverty, are finally over.

Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own, but I wish to sell out.

Poverty in the world compromises man more than anything else and will no doubt bring about the downfall of such a megalomaniac animal.

The inability to "let go" is even more difficult for those who founded their businesses at a time of unemployment or family poverty.

Nearly fifty percent of the children here live below the poverty line without the services and conveniences that we all take for granted.

Being a country with a large population, China is actively engaged in and one of the major forces behind poverty reduction around the world.

Critics of such policies say that children who grow up in poverty forfeit the chance to prosper as adults, or to become productive workers.

For it is not just Israel's high-tech industry around Tel Aviv that floats like an island of wealth in a sea of poverty.

I had to think of things from her viewpoint. She was my Mama, and yet she wasn't. We were separated by a wall of poverty.

In doing so, he gave up a future higher than average salary for an almost guaranteed life of relative poverty in an instant.

He said he and his organization have worked for 36 years for the alleviation of poverty.

Songs with a strong African flavor, expressed this film is full of war, poverty and backwardness of the land abandoned to love.

Until recent years, the major reason for Chinese nationals to leave the country, legally or illegally, was to escape poverty.

The poverty mentality thinks, "There's such a tiny bit of cake; I might as well eat it. "

All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.

In his opening statement, Wolfowitz said the world was now at an important moment in history to eradicate poverty and create opportunity.

The ancients said the best state for a person is to be content with poverty and caring only for the principles.

We still try to address problems like poverty and Islamic extremism by trying to tease out individual causes.

Addams came to see that poverty was not due to character deficits, but social conditions that needed to be changed.

After the fall of Suharto in Indonesia, I began to explore conditions of poverty in a country that was on its way towards modernization.

At the moment, land-grabbing foreigners seem to be creating islands for themselves, cut off from the poverty-stricken countryside.

Unlike the Soviet Union, it appears to have found a way to lift millions out of poverty while still locking up its dissidents.

Starting in the late 90s, he began to hungrily chew through the expert literature on global disease and nutrition and poverty.

Its improvised approaches, sniff theorists, cannot be scaled up and are therefore not up to the task of tackling global poverty.

Perhaps no other thing has such power : to lift the poor out of his poverty , to make a man forget his burden , as book .

Most recently, on the poverty of the recipients do not know how thankful again become the focus of media attention.

Poverty depresses most people; in the case of him it was otherwise.

Poverty depresses most people; in the case of him it was otherwise.

Let us pray for a compassionate heart and strong Biblical stand in a society that accepts that " prostitution is better than poverty " .

While no one is daft enough to say poverty excuses looting, some insist that poverty has everything to do with what has happened.

He said there are some members of the Taliban who joined simply out of ignorance, or to escape poverty.

The U. S. has arrived at the point where poverty could be abolished easily and simply by a stroke of the pen.

One of his books was an examination of poverty in the East End of London.

Poverty is often perceived as a dilemma of the developing world, Yunus said, but the problem is alive and well in North America.

Mister Gordon uses words from hip-hop songs to help young people, especially those who grew up with poverty and abuse, as he did.

Poverty may be miserable. But being able to feel a bit better-off than someone else makes it a bit more bearable.

In a suburb of Jakarta, children drifting in poverty seem to have found a lifebuoy to keep them afloat in the Nurul Iman Islamic School.

When he was a child, his father left home leaving him in poverty.

Last week protesters prompted him to cancel a speech in which he was to have highlighted the fears of a nine-year-old girl in urban poverty.

His years of wretched poverty in early life inspired him with a deep sympathy for the common man and with a passion for social justice.

The rise in poverty levels did not pose a serious political challenge to the Kremlin, she said.

This was mainly a bid for a legacy, but he also believed Africa's poverty made it a breeding ground or haven for terrorism.

COBBLER unable to make a living by his trade and made desperate by poverty, began to practice medicine in a town in which he was not known.

The defining common trait of these places is not so much poverty or criminality, though these certainly flourish, as tribalism.

After the Agnew nomination was announced, what had been a peaceful gathering against poverty turned into a riot.

to see him as a grimacing personage, laughing at her poverty, and her shrouded knightly ancestry.

Even he is in poverty, he is always ready to help others.

Didymus told me to ask my sociology teacher: "Is hunger relative, just like you say poverty is relative? "

Everyone read the two volumes of her memoirs published in her lifetime, but she died in poverty aged 38, with only Jack at her side.

Like Lula, she was born in poverty, but she fell out with him over what she sees as his government's failure to defend the environment.

The Maoists' promises to rectify poverty and injustice initially found a sympathetic ear among the uneducated rural population.

Given that profile, denying that poverty was a background factor in the unrest, as Mr Cameron seems to, is frankly bizarre.

Thanks to years of spectacular growth, more people have been pulled from abject poverty in modern Asia than at any other time in history.

Personally I cannot see it is proper to oppose poverty eradication against dealing with Climate Change, or at least put one above the other.

As she said, she was 'fond of luxury', and her chief trouble was poverty.

When we met the difficulties and poverty, it had never revenged with us, it accepted us just like before, and was still kindly and friendly.

But with eight children and a wife to support, Mr. Eller said he was still "below poverty level. "

Today, we are here the successful completion of the studies, however, the long road of life, and did not know the road to poverty.

It is no longer the Dark Continent in continual economic free fall, wallowing in debt, poverty and disease.

Productivity of the land and seas is diminishing, and with them the ecosystem services that are crucial for people to get out of poverty.

But the thing I found most impressive was the way the film managed to make you feel exactly what it was like to grow up in real poverty.

Millions of her compatriots would love to know why China's path out of poverty is so much quicker than their own.

The bank has also begun to look beyond policies at the deep, social " institutions" that underpin prosperity or poverty.

I found that I had been a rich man without any damage to my poverty.

The poverty and fear and degradation were too awful to be acceptable to any man of spirit.

That's why we've got so much poverty and other troubles in this country, and if you get another term you've got to do something about it.

The only way you get out of poverty is to create jobs, businesses and enterprise; and microfinance does that.

In a time of steep poverty, he was something of a hero to the rural poor, who identified with him in his battles against authority.

While material poverty in its historical or global form is nonexistent in the United States, what I call behavioral poverty has skyrocketed.

Despite his patrician upbringing, proud family traditions, and hard work, Melville found himself in poverty with no college education.

for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.

But Iraqis are taking to the streets to ask why millions are living in poverty in one of the most oil-rich countries in the world.

But he is deeply interested in whether people like Chengcheng can make it out of the poverty they were born into.

Changshun County is one of the National minority poverty county and a typical traditional agricultural county.

Globalisation may be lifting millions of people out of absolute poverty, but it has also led to startling divergences in relative wealth.

Just as important, China has recovered its self-confidence, lost during 150 years of colonial humiliation, civil strife and poverty.

As a young man he suffered a lot from poverty. He used to knock about at the market, trying to find a job for a few coins.

He seemed a very unusual screever, and he was, moreover, the first person I had heard maintain that poverty did not matter.

More often than not, the children of child workers are also trapped in poverty, perpetuating the cycle.

For decades, India's sprawling and inefficient bureaucracy has spent billions of dollars to try to drag the poor out of poverty.

and it imports capital to help lift its people out of poverty, registering growth of 8 per cent or so a year.

Americans are beginning to realize that this terrible problem of poverty is their problem and not just the Government's.

Think Sudan. People forget that extreme poverty as a result of desertification explains much of that country's travails.

As poverty tends to concentrate in hard-to-reach places, it constrains access to the services that deliver existing interventions.

So Africa has a rare chance to break out of its poverty trap. It would be hard even if governments were honest and efficient.

In this week's magazine story on poverty in the U. S. , I briefly mention that the way we typically count the poor is far from ideal.

London physician whose round of practice remained among the poor and was circumscribed by poverty .

The misery of his loneliness was now compounded by his poverty.

The forces that helped to push some of the poor out of poverty over the past decade of rapid growth have shifted into reverse.

On Earth poverty is a great cause of criminal activity, and the stress of daily living also builds up to a breakdown of self control.

As a black child of a single mother in Richmond, Kentucky, Embry grew up in poverty.

The creators of the new study said the level of poverty in South Asia compared to Africa was a surprising discovery.

It is often assumed that philanthropy is the only way to assist people in poverty.

Yet economists point out that there are surprisingly few credible estimates of the extent to which microcredit actually reduces poverty.

He seems heartfelt in his desire to address the poverty of his native land and to stamp out sex trafficking, among other abuses.

Indeed, Kim Jong-il appeared to have ruled over a country wracked by poverty and starvation.

Luck is hard to come by but easy to sell in poverty-stricken Tongxin, in northwestern China.

The Indians should focus on feeding its own people and pulling their masses out of poverty instead of trying to create trouble in China.

"Hunger is a cause of poverty, not just a consequence of it, " says FAO economist Kostas Stamoulis.

The poverty of her childhood stands in total contrast to her luxurious life in Hollywood.

Jericho is a shining beacon of hope which reminds us that poverty can be swallowed-up in the victory of hard work.

It was a very old land, full of enchantment and human sorrow, with its poverty and those useless temples.

In Mexico, elements of the Alkire-Foster method have been incorporated, along with others, into a poverty index introduced last December.

With green technology and with investments to alleviate poverty, and with good global governance, the world can become like this.

Q: In his speech to Indonesians yesterday, US President Obama said prosperity without freedom was just another form of poverty.

This funds' aim is to help the children living in poverty.

Increasing poverty has led to a situation where the poorest openly admit that they cannot afford to have children.

China is a developing country; poverty is all along comparatively serious.

China's economic development has lifted more people out of poverty than any other nation in modern history.

And history shows that economic growth is among the greatest forces for progress in lifting people out of poverty.

The bank's thousands of employees, of course, are well experienced in fighting poverty.

Thanks to a massive increase in welfare spending, millions have been lifted out of the worst poverty.

Poverty is important, but the report also found a direct link between discrimination against women and lower health status.

"The fight against poverty is now on the agenda of every sector. "

The past decade made a disappointingly small dent in poverty, but it may be the best time the poor will know for many years.

At the end of 1989 it was easy to imagine the region staying mired in poverty for decades.

It was the stern competence of people still rising from poverty and having no desire to stop half-way.

Before looking at the evidence, we need first to ask what matters more, inequality or poverty?

His motherland is troubled with poverty and backwardness, but he feels a deep affection for her all the same.

What you call rags I call romance. What seems poverty to you is charm to me. However, I'll tell him of your offer.

Minimalism helped me to get out of debt, and to get out of poverty.

Family planning experts used to say that women only started having fewer children when they got educated or escaped poverty.

In an article he reveals that his real aim is to use the problems of immigrant absorption and poverty to besmirch the name of Israel.

You think of water as quite a basic thing, but that fundamental root cause of poverty can impact on so many different areas.

Much of the remaining poverty, he said, involved households thatlacked migrant laborers or able-bodied workers.

Their stories show us how it is possible to move out of poverty, especially when there are local opportunities available.

So does Pakistani education, to help get peasants off the sodden land and out of poverty.

This rises to nearly three-quarters of those parents below the poverty line, the online poll of 854 parents for Save the Children indicated.

Crime is often an outgrowth of poverty .

It did not correlate with the quality of the infrastructure. It did not correlate with the poverty levels.

As a child, I grew up in what I now see was poverty.

No economy in history has lifted more people out of poverty in a shorter period of time than China has within the last two decades.

As any architectural historian knows, the sad truth is that poverty is often good for preservation.

The health of mothers and children "is at the core of the struggle against poverty and inequality, as a matter of human rights" .

Green gestures, liberal noises on race and sexuality and a focus on public services and poverty all helped him to make progress.

Yet the World Development Report suggests that the main constraint on development these days may not be a poverty trap but a violence trap.

Finally, many of my colleagues have pointed out that reducing poverty involves more than the commitment of the Bank's loans and grants.

The days were all so quiet and relaxing, after the hardships and poverty of his previous life.

The poverty of her childhood stands in total contrast to her life in Hollywood.

These problems, Shanghai has become a matter of course duty-bound to government departments at all levels of poverty issues.

Yet countries do escape poverty, and do not always grow more peaceable in the process.

As I said, if we want better health to work as a poverty reduction strategy, we must reach the poor. Here is where we fail.

The Southern Poverty Law Centre in Alabama has labelled it a "hate group" because it spreads "known falsehoods" about homosexuality.

To summarize, I would like to say that charity is to make the poor aware that poverty is created by the few people who are greedy.

Gentlemen of the jury, a man's dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and sickness.

Climate change, poverty, disease, terrorism -- each issue on its own is enough to consume all of our time.

As well as alleviating abject poverty, the scheme is credited with helping to put a floor under domestic consumption.

To shake off the families of poverty, the Eiffel's mother resolutely provoked the burden of life, decided to operate a coal stack alone.

But she says these are social services that are the responsibility of governments to provide - at least to citizens living in poverty.

The secretary said the poverty and instability in Somalia that underlie the piracy problem are not being forgotten.

Elephant poaching largely takes place in central Africa, where poverty and political instability are rife.

Indeed, if properly implemented, the law could help lift millions of Chadians out of poverty through a sound management of oil revenues.

our policy thinking is to help people to help themselves , with a focus on increasing employment and reducing inter - generational poverty.

And I know, in the light of human suffering and poverty and even climate change, one would wonder, why worry about a few cats?

This week they were rebuked by Campaign 2000, an activist group, which reported that child poverty is now as bad as it was two decades ago.

Fu said China can't use its reserves to fund poverty alleviation at home or to bail out foreign countries.

I am not a real man, for I live off a woman. Others want to be rich, but I long for poverty.

The World Bank Group will be there to help countries end poverty and boost shared prosperity in at least four ways.

Only about half of Americans growing up in poverty complete high school, and those who do reach only an eighth-grade standard.

And don't tell people that you were my student. To a highly-educated person, poverty means shame and failure.

Out in the western provinces, far from ultra-modern Shanghai, poverty levels are bad even by south Asian standards.

Due to poverty, quite a few country children dropped out of school.

The Distress Committee was not the only body pretending to deal with the poverty problem.

Since then, many scholars have wondered what this economic demotion means for the bank's global poverty counts.

The discovery of another 400m poor people will not satisfy some of the bank's critics, who think it still undercounts poverty.

The report says in Latin America, growth is up over the past two years, but is still too low to make strong inroads into poverty reduction.

These people are not junk food environmentalists against waste, nor is it a poverty-stricken homeless, purely to save money.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) once pointed out poverty has a woman's face. Most of the poor are female.

Almost a fifth of New Orleans households now live below the federal poverty line ($22, 000 a year for a family of four).

The World Bank's Mr. Dollar says that China does offer sound lessons for other countries trying to escape poverty.

Studies have been carried out on the relationships between rural poverty and deforestation and population growth and deforestation.

The reforms that Deng and his party comrades unleashed in 1979 turned out to be the largest poverty-reduction program in human history.

So I had set my sights on realistic goals that would get me out of poverty: a college education, a solid marriage and a career.

In 1992, it accounted for 33% of the poverty line for able-bodied persons and by 1995 it had decreased to 14% of that level.

She was not beautiful, but she was hardworking, cooked and kept house well, and begged in the streets to relieve her family's poverty.

The cuts and high food prices have led to further economic hardships and a surge in poverty, especially for the majority of rural residents.

He hopes that this will lead to a world where not a single human being will suffer from the misery and indignity of poverty.

More than 10 million people are still living below poverty line, a population equal to that of Belgium.

Of course, the city was not always a happy mosaic of the world, and ethnic tensions abounded, as did crime and poverty.

In The Exile (1936) Buck told her mother's story of sacrifice, poverty and suffering in a marriage of sexual and spiritual duty.

China and India are twice as rich as they were a decade ago, taking millions out of poverty.

If, this evening, the image of a certain childhood comes back to me, how can I keep from welcoming the lesson of love and poverty it offers?

Her poverty had been a venial fault for two gallant gentlemen.

Mohammed Yunus has said he worries that lenders may be more interested in profits than poverty reduction.

With poverty reduction and economic stability in Africa as two bright spots of the program, there is proof that improvement is possible.

The recent violence against black foreigners is a reminder that the bottom third of South Africans still face gnawing poverty.

A major priority is to help forest communities earn more money and escape poverty and hunger, in ways that are environmentally sustainable.