Poverty is usually measured as either absolute or relative poverty ( the latter being actually an index of income inequality ).

Poverty in these countries is a condition usually characterised by a severe deprivation of basic human needs ( UN, 1995 ).

was released in 2001 on G7 Welcoming Committee Records as a benefit for the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty and features spoken word by anti-poverty activists over instrumental music.

Poverty and lack of schools are considered as the primary cause of child labour.

Poverty is often a root cause of child abandonment.

Systems of government are dynamic and they are bound to change in accordance with the wishes of and aspirations of the people ... During my term of office, I selflessly dedicated myself to the good cause of Mother Malawi in the fight against Poverty, Ignorance and Disease among many other issues ; but if within the process, those who worked in my government or through false pretence in my name or indeed unknowingly by me, pain and suffering was caused to anybody in this country in the name of nationhood, I offer my sincere apologies.

Poverty is the number one indirect cause of obstretic fistulas around the world.

Poverty is a cause of lack of education, but it is not the sole cause, and vice versa.

Amartya Sen argues in his book Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation ( 1980 ) that population expansion fails to cause famines or degradation as Malthusians or Neo-Malthusians argue.

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

These include: Poverty Creek, which has 12 campsites as well as an open camping ground which holds 80, Gallaghers Point which has six campsites, Mission Point which has 12 campsites which are only accessible by boat, Lime Pocket which has six campsites, also only accessible by boat and Ocean Beach which has 63 campsites.

Second, it is believed that social outcomes can only be improved by reducing income poverty ( known as Capability Expansion through Poverty Reduction ).

Poverty was addressed only marginally.

At the 2008 Innovations for Poverty Action / Financial Access Initiative Microfinance Research conference, economist Jonathan Morduch of New York University noted there are only one or two methodologically sound studies of microfinance's impact.

He initially found over 100 articles on the subject, but included only the 6 which used enough quantitative data to be representative, and none of which employed rigorous methods such as randomized control trials similar to those reported by Innovations for Poverty Action and the M. I. T.

Poverty among Americans between ages 18 – 64 has fallen only marginally since 1966, from 10. 5 % then to 10. 1 % today.

He analyzed over 100 articles on the subject, but included only the 6 which used enough quantitative data to be representative, and none of which employed rigorous methods such as randomized control trials similar to those reported by Innovations for Poverty Action and the M. I. T.

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

While the kinds of films produced by Poverty Row studios only grew in popularity, they would eventually become increasingly available both from major production companies and from independent producers who no longer needed to rely on a studio's ability to package and release their work.

Back in the United States following the outbreak of World War II, Elliot Paul turned to screenwriting where in Hollywood, between 1941 and 1953, he participated in the writing of ten screenplays, the most remembered of which is the 1945 production, Rhapsody in Blue ; he also wrote the screenplay for the Poverty Row production of New Orleans, a fictional history of Storyville jazz featuring Billie Holiday in her only acting role.

; Redistribution: Poverty programs transfer money from the rich to the poor, as they benefit the poor only but are paid for by the tax payers.

Poverty rates seem to vary in different states, as in Bavaria only 3. 9 % suffer from poverty, while in Berlin 15. 2 % of the inhabitants are poor.

Poverty cannot be defined only by statistics and reports, such as the poverty line, to see whether or not people are impoverished in their respective countries.

It has also proved that even those judged as criminals have a human side to them and in many cases they only take to crime due to compelling circumstances ( Poverty, Political disenfranchisement ).

Critics have charged Landes with Eurocentrism in his analysis, a charge which Landes himself does not deny — in fact, he embraces it explicitly, arguing that an explanation for an economic miracle that happened originally only in Europe ( though he deals with the later ' Asian miracle ' in Wealth and Poverty ) must of necessity be a Eurocentric analysis, thus siding at least at some level with thinkers such as Bernard Lewis.

The last report, 2006, The UN Human Poverty Index ( HPI ) for 2006 only has a ranking for 18 of the 21 countries with the highest Human Development Index.

However, in many cases, Poverty of Stimulus arguments do not in fact depend on the assumption that there is only one correct grammar, but rather that there is only one correct class of grammars.

For example, the Poverty of Stimulus argument from question formation depends only on the assumption that everyone learns a structure-dependent grammar.

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.

The country signed an Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility ( ESAF ) -- later converted to a Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility ( PRGF ) with the International Monetary Fund in March 1999.

In his Poverty of Historicism, he identified historicism with the view that there are " inexorable laws of historical destiny ", which view he warned against.

He followed this with The Poverty of Philosophy ( 1847 ), a response to the French anarcho-socialist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's The Philosophy of Poverty and a critique of French socialist thought in general.

Although Moldova passed a Poverty Reduction Strategy in 2004, it has yet to reach an agreement with international financial institutions.

Nicaragua signed a 3-year Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility ( PRGF ) with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) in October 2007.

Poverty, sexual exploitation and cruelty still dog our civilizations in Night's Dawn, and the coalition opposing the Possessed are faced with a particularly cruel moral conundrum: they cannot destroy them without also killing their host bodies.

The Southern Poverty Law Center lists the Pioneer Fund as a hate group, citing the fund's history, its funding of race and intelligence research, and its connections with racist individuals.

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Poverty is one of the reasons behind child trafficking and some children are smuggled with their parents ' consent.

Tanzania is also engaged in a Policy Support Instrument ( PSI ) with the International Monetary Fund, which commenced in February 2007 after Tanzania completed its second 3-year Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility ( PRGF ), the first having been completed in August 2003.

Poverty in Venezuela increased during the 1980s and 1990s but has decreased during the Chávez presidency, with the exception of the troubled years 2002 and 2003.

It seeks to do this by building favorable interactions between the public, private and civil society and working with different networks both in local ( EITI NGO Coalition, National Budget Group, Public Coalition Against Poverty and etc.

Their friendship finally ended when Marx responded to Proudhon's The System of Economic Contradictions, or The Philosophy of Poverty with the provocatively titled The Poverty of Philosophy.

The War on Poverty began with a $ 1 billion appropriation in 1964 and spent another $ 2 billion in the following two years.

Poverty forced the family, with three children — another son Bohuslav, three years Hašek's younger, and an orphan cousin Maria — to move often, more than fifteen times during his infancy.

The Freedom Press collective runs an autonomy club, archive, bookshop and newspaper, while sharing the premises with The London Coalition Against Poverty, the Advisory Service for Squatters and Corporate Watch.

" On Poverty Row, many Bs were made on budgets that would have barely covered petty cash on a major's A film, with costs at the bottom of the industry running as low as $ 5, 000.

Less sturdy Poverty Row concerns — with a penchant for grand sobriquets like Conquest, Empire, Imperial, and Peerless — continued to churn out dirt-cheap quickies.

Poverty has long been associated with Tukwila.

* I trust that the labour and hazard of an investigation-of which the smallest results have been slowly pieced together, in the pressure of arduous avocations, under grinding penurious apprehensions, at rise of morn, at dewy eve, in the shadows of night, under the watchful eye of one whom it were superfluous to call Demon, combined with the struggle of parental Poverty to turn it, when completed, to the right account, may be as the sprinkling of a few drops of sweet water on my funeral pyre.

In 1931 Scott played his first leading role ( with Sally Blane ) in Women Men Marry, a film, now apparently lost, that was made by a Poverty Row studio called Headline Pictures.

Grameen Foundation has released two papers summarizing the state of research on the impact of microfinance on poverty: " Measuring the Impact of Microfinance, Taking Stock of What We Know " by Nathanael Goldberg ( now with Innovations for Poverty Action ) and an update, " Measuring the Impact of Microfinance: Taking Another Look " by Professor Kathleen Odell.