Poverty rates were higher for indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants and rural areas, reaching 44 % of the Native ancestry population.

Poverty was tackled through an agricultural policy which resettled 250, 000 Malays on newly cleared farmland, more investment in rural infrastructure, and the creation of free trade zones in rural areas to create new manufacturing jobs.

Poverty was rife in the rural areas and the islands, and was eased only by large-scale emigration to the United States.

Poverty is especially prevalent in rural areas.

* c. 700 BC: The civilization at Poverty Point, Louisiana, is at its peak, importing materials from as far away as the Great Lakes and Appalachian Mountains areas.

Poverty and social problems remained important in the isolated Cree and Inuit villages of Northern Quebec, even in areas where there were no hydroelectric or mining activities.

Poverty intensified in 5 main areas.

Poverty Bay is one of the more fertile areas of New Zealand and famous for its Chardonnay, fruit, vegetables and avocados, with abundant sunshine and fertile alluvial soil.

Kennedy's program was soon used as a nationwide model that began in Bedford Stuyvesant and would be used in other large urban areas to fight the War on Poverty.

Poverty in Bangladesh is highest amongst coastal regions, with Chandpur district recognized by the Water Resources Planning Organization ( WARPO ) as one of the country's poorest areas.

When Charles Booth surveyed Hackney Wick in his London-wide survey of poverty during the 1890s he would have noticed that there were, amid the noxious fumes and noise, areas of lessened deprivation .< ref >< cite > Booth Poverty Map Online Archive 1898-9

Poverty and crime rose as the city declined.

The city of Gisborne is located at the north end of Poverty Bay.

The city takes pride in having the least poverty incidence among urban centers in the Visayas and Mindanao, according to the 2009 Small Area Estimates ( SAE ) of Poverty done by the National Statistical Coordination Board ( NSCB ).

See related articles, Poverty in Canada and Economic impact of immigration to Canada As a result, many more children in this area are being raised in high poverty households than in the city as a whole.

The Cathedral of Our Lady of Poverty, is religious architectural heritage of the city and the world.

The marchers had been asked to wear white to make a symbolic ring of white through the city, matching the Make Poverty History white wristband.

However she does work as a Counselor for the New York City Poverty Program and lives in the city.

* Cipher and Poverty ( The Book of Nothing ), a book by Mike Schertzer ( 1998 ), pretends to have been written " by a prisoner whose world had been impoverished to a single utterance ... who can find me here in this silence ".

Even smaller production houses, known as Poverty Row studios, made films whose costs might run as low as $ 3, 000, seeking a profit through whatever bookings they could pick up in the gaps left by the larger concerns.

: Father Coudrin recited his vow starting at 11: 45 in the evening: I Marie-Joseph take the vows of Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience following the inspiration of the Holy Spirit as a Zealot of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, in whose service, I wish to live and die.

Charles Booth's Map of London Poverty ( 1900 ) describes the residents of Wickham Rd and Breakspears Rd as " well-to-do " or " wealthy ".

Poverty, lack of sanitation, and unemployment continue to be the greatest issues for the Mikindani Township, which have ensured low health and safety standards for its residents.

In contrast to Poverty Point, where its residents made projectile points with materials traded from distant locations, including Wisconsin and Tennessee, the artifacts of Watson Brake show local materials and production.

Columbia was one of the many start-up studios located on " Poverty Row " in Los Angeles, and like the others, was unable to compete with the larger studios which often had their own production facilities, distribution and theaters.

This concept had been approved at the Medellín conference by Bishop Ricard Durand, president of the Commission about Poverty.

Two " major-minors "— Universal Studios and rising Columbia Pictures — had production lines roughly similar to, though somewhat better endowed than, the top Poverty Row studios.

This was in sharp contrast to the slums that had developed in York and other cities during the previous century, the deprivation of which had been revealed in Seebohm Rowntrees ' report of 1901, entitled Poverty: a study of town life.

These attacks, as well as similar incidents that caused the Southern Poverty Law Center to declare in 2002 that the animal rights movement had " clearly taken a turn toward the more extreme ," this prompted the US government to pass the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act and the UK government to add the offense of " Intimidation of persons connected with animal research organisation " to the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.

Poverty and his injury had brought Pollard to the edge of alcoholism.

Poverty and social injustice were widespread, and Nuri had become a symbol of a regime that failed to address these issues, choosing a course of repression instead to protect the interests of the well-off.

President Johnson's " War on Poverty " speech was delivered at a time of recovery ( the poverty level had fallen from 22. 4 % in 1959 to 19 % in 1964 when the War on Poverty was announced ) and it was viewed by critics as an effort to get the United States Congress to authorize social welfare programs.

A project undertaken in Peru by Innovations for Poverty Action found that those borrowers randomly selected to receive financial training as part of their borrowing group meetings had higher profits, although there was not a reduction in " the proportion who reported having problems in their business ".

In the second position, he was responsible for the World Bank ’ s global programmes and policies to fight poverty and the development of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper ( PRSP ) initiative that had just been launched.

Many of the men killed were probably present only because they had been Te Kooti's prisoners, captured during his raid on Poverty Bay.

Poverty in the region had increased more than tenfold.

Covering a variety of social conservative topics, while drawing on an article written by Arthur Wynn and his wife which had been published by the Child Poverty Action Group, he warned about single parents " who were first pregnant in adolescence in social classes 4 and 5 ", the traditional taboos against which were easing at the time.

During this period Harrington wrote The Other America: Poverty in the United States, a book that had an impact on the Kennedy administration, and on Lyndon B. Johnson's subsequent War on Poverty.

Poverty was also significantly reduced, with one estimate suggesting that the percentage of Americans living in poverty had fallen from 33 % of the population in 1949 to 28 % by 1952.

Inspired, the artist ceased work on a series of etchings she had intended to illustrate Emile Zola's Germinal, and produced a cycle of six works on the weavers theme, three lithographs ( Poverty, Death, and Conspiracy ) and three etchings with aquatint and sandpaper ( March of the Weavers, Riot, and The End ).

When the Athenians asked the people of Andros to give them money for their protection, because they had come with the aid of two gods, Peitho ( Persuation ) and Ananke, they replied that the power of Athens could never be stronger than the goddess Penia ( Poverty ) who expressed their inability to pay.

Make Poverty History, in contrast, had been running for five months prior to the Live 8 announcement and, in form of the Jubilee 2000 campaign ( of which Make Poverty History was essentially a re-branding ) for ten years.

In October 1933, Downey announced that he was running for governor of California, but after a series of meetings with the writer Upton Sinclair, who also had designs on the governorship, Downey agreed to run for Lieutenant Governor of California as Sinclair's running mate, stumping on the End Poverty in California ( EPIC ) plan ( opponents called the ticket " Uppie and Downey ").