According to these critics who use data from the 1997 poll, the poverty rate rises to 29 %.

Under Jiang and Zhu's ten years of administration, the PRC's economic performance pulled an estimated 150 million peasants out of poverty and sustained an average annual gross domestic product growth rate of 11. 2 %.

Despite recent gains, 40 % of the population lives below the poverty line, more than double the rate five years ago.

The extreme poverty rate has declined significantly between 1999 and 2010.

This has led to a high rate of poverty in Ghana, estimated at 27 % of the population in 2011, and an increase in crime, with Ghana jumping from 42nd position in 2011 to 50th position in the 2012 Global Peace Index.

The current program works to advance U. S. foreign policy objectives by focusing on Guatemala's potential as Central America's largest economy and trading partner of the United States, but also recognizes the country's lagging social indicators and high rate of poverty.

Despite wide-ranging poverty, Haiti increased its mobile phone coverage rate from 6 % to 30 % in one year ( May 2006 to May 2007 ).

This growth rate was sufficient to reduce poverty from 17. 8 % to 16. 6 % based on the Government ’ s poverty line and reversed the recent trend towards jobless growth, with unemployment falling to 8. 46 % in February 2008.

The IMF describes itself as “ an organization of 188 countries ( as of April 2012 ), working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty .” The organization's stated objectives are to promote international economic cooperation, international trade, employment, and exchange rate stability, including by making financial resources available to member countries to meet balance of payments needs.

Although the Indian economy enjoyed a steady rate of growth at 2. 5 % per annum ( mocked by leftist economist Raj Krishna as a " Hindu rate of growth "), chronic unemployment amidst widespread poverty continued to plague the population.

The pro-market policies enacted by Fujimori, were continued by presidents Alejandro Toledo and Alan Garcia, While poverty of Lima is 18. 5 %, the national average is 30 %, while the unemployment rate is 6. 5 % and 54 % are employed formally.

In 2005, 18 % of Peruvians were living in extreme poverty and a poverty rate at 39 %.

Many urban areas still have a high rate of children in poverty.

Tajikistan has been hit harder than many countries because it already has a high poverty rate and because many of its citizens depend on remittances from expatriate Tajikistanis.

He questions the link between viruses and AIDS and believes that the correlation between poverty and the AIDS rate in Africa was a challenge to the viral theory of AIDS.

More than 30, 000 private businesses had been created, economy was growing at an annual rate of more than 7 %, and poverty was nearly halved.

* October 13 – The United States Commission on Civil Rights releases the report, Puerto Ricans in the Continental United States: An Uncertain Future, that documents that Puerto Ricans in the United States have a poverty rate of 33 percent in 1974 ( up from 29 percent in 1970 ), the highest of all major racial-ethnic groups in the country ( not including Puerto Rico, a U. S. territory ).

" This legislation was proposed by Johnson in response to a national poverty rate of around nineteen percent.

A divorce may result in the parent and children moving to an area with a higher poverty rate and a poor education system all due to the financial struggles of a single parent.

Most came from Southern China looking for a better life ; escaping a high rate of poverty left after the Taiping Rebellion.

Worldwide poverty has increased since the end of the 19th century especially considering that the richest are richer than ever but the poor have remained at the same level and the percentage has risen in the last 30 years.

There also remained a strong economic divide between the north and south of England during this period, with the south of England and the Midlands fairly prosperous by the Thirties, while parts of south Wales and the industrial north of England became known as " distressed areas " due to particularly high rates of unemployment and poverty.

During a period of solid growth from 1997 to 2001, poverty levels remained stubbornly high, especially in rural areas.

He rejected any kind of favours for his family ; his brother remained a postal clerk, his favourite nephew stayed on as village priest, and his three sisters lived together close to poverty in Rome.

Social safety-net spending in Peru remained well below the Latin American average under Toledo even as it covered a larger percentage of the population, which means that outlays were insufficient to lift many people up out of poverty.

Later it was inherited by the House of Hohenstaufen, who were ousted in the 13th century by Angevine domination: the expulsion of most of the " Saracen " population and the establishment of a strict feudal system hampered any hopes of an economic recovery for the region, which remained in abject poverty.

He maintained a notoriously lavish lifestyle ( including a state-sponsored US $ 3 million wedding in 1980 ), and made millions from involvement in the drug trade and from selling body parts from dead Haitians while poverty among his people remained the most widespread for any country in the Americas.

City tax bases started shrinking as poverty remained high, while employment opportunities were limited.

Set against the economic boom from oil revenue it became apparent that the Land Reforms did not make life better for the rural population: according to Amid, ".. only a small group of rural people experienced increasing improvements in their welfare and poverty remained the lot of the majority ".

Those who refused to assimilate remained in poverty on the reservations, supported by Federal food, medicine and schooling.

The two countries had been historically dominated by multinational corporations and wealthy landowning oligarchs while most of their population remained in poverty ; as a result, predominantly Marxist revolutionary leaders had won increasing support from the peasantry in both nations.

Over the following generations, crops were sold to Rome and the economic status of the cities inhabitants shifted ; some became wealthy while others remained in comparative poverty.

Supporters argued that high welfare rates had created disincentives to find entry-level jobs, and that poverty levels remained relatively unchanged between 1995 and 2005.

He was born at Besançon and educated at Leuven ; but he secretly left the seminary there, and travelled through Germany to Italy, where he remained several years and was often reduced to poverty.

The Kalahari Bushmen remained in poverty where their richer neighbours denied them rights to the land.

In an analysis of the effects of intensive Anglo-American neoliberal policies in comparison to continental European neoliberalism, where unions have remained strong, they concluded " The U. S. economic and social model is associated with substantial levels of social exclusion, including high levels of income inequality, high relative and absolute poverty rates, poor and unequal educational outcomes, poor health outcomes, and high rates of crime and incarceration.

Critics also pointed out that economic growth was not evenly distributed among the social classes, and the percentage of people living below the poverty level remained high, especially in the rural areas.

Meanwhile, large parts of the developing world remained plagued by largely preventable / treatable infectious diseases and poor maternal and child health outcomes, exacerbated by malnutrition and poverty.

The Tories remained hostile to labour and immigrants, and were not prepared to provide social relief when the Great Depression threw thousands out of work and into poverty.

Guiraud states that Dominic " made the monks lay him on some sacking stretched upon the ground " and that " the brief time that remained to him was spent in exhorting his followers to have charity, to guard their humility, and to make their treasure out of poverty ".

The US, for instance, has remained a somewhat stable level of the working poverty rate over the past four decades, but many social scientists argue that the official rate is set too low ; that the proportion of workers facing significant financial hardship has instead increased over the years.

Using the US Census Bureau's definition of poverty, the working poverty rate seems to have remained relatively stable since 1978.