Sentences with phrase «people living in extreme poverty»

The first and most significant was to cut in half the proportion of people living in extreme poverty globally — defined as an income below US$ 1 per day.

Between 1990 and 2010 the percentage of people living in extreme poverty fell to 21 % from 43 %.

[2] Moreover: it was found that 20 percent of people living in extreme poverty have a disability.

«Yesterday, seeing Sonny Boy for the first time in 20 years, it was incredibly overwhelming, and I went to bed last night, just thinking to myself, that often we tell the story that in the last 30 years (that) extreme poverty has halved, but in some ways, I think that masks the present reality of suffering for so many people living in extreme poverty.

Not only did Honduras suffer the highest deforestation rate in the Western hemisphere from 2005 to 2010, it has the worst income disparity in all of Latin America, with one in five rural people living in extreme poverty.

It was designed as the centerpiece to The Poor People's Campaign, which was created by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr (and carried on by Reverend Ralph Abernathy after King's death) to show how the money that was being spent on the war on Vietnam could be used to help the millions of people living in extreme poverty here at home.

The country has more people living in extreme poverty than any nation on Earth.

«Often we tell the story that in the last 30 years, extreme poverty has halved, but in some ways, I think that masks the present reality of suffering for so many people living in extreme poverty.

The results suggest that a 10 % increase in remittances as share of gross domestic product (GDP) will lead to a 1.2 % decline in the number of people living on less than US$ 1.25 per day, 2.4 % decline in the depth of poverty, 3.1 % decline in the number of people living in extreme poverty and 1.5 % decline in inequality.

That is why many such programs continue to fail or cost millions of dollars with little to no benefit to the refugees or people living in extreme poverty.

These events will rally individuals and congregations to raise awareness and advocate on behalf of people living in extreme poverty and struggling against preventable diseases, including malaria.

«I think many Londoners felt uncomfortable about the bus operation of one of the world's financial powerhouses being funded by the people of a country where many people live in extreme poverty,» Mr Johnson said.

Also, the Ghana Living Standard Survey published by the Ghana Statistical Service indicates that people living in extreme poverty have reduced from 37 % to 9.6 %.

Available statistics at the Ghana Statistical Service indicate that one - quarter of Ghana's population live in poverty, with one out of every 12 persons living in extreme poverty.

Around the world 1.4 billion people live in extreme poverty - the equivalent of living in the United States off just $ 1.25 a day.

In particular, it was shown that a 10 % improvement in the link between remittances and finance can lead to a 0.6 % decline in the number of people living on less than US$ 1.25 per day, 1.1 % decline in the depth of poverty, 1.4 % decline in the number of people living in extreme poverty and 0.5 % decline in inequality.

There's been progress on several fronts — notably a big reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger — but none of these goals will have been achieved in full by next year, any more than the «goals 2000» project for American K — 12 education met its targets (e.g., «first in the world in math and science») by the stated end point.

«Sixty percent of people living in extreme poverty are women.

It is no coincidence that half of the people living in extreme poverty around the world live in places afflicted by chronic violence and conflict.

[F] or the first time the proportion of people living in extreme poverty — on less than $ 1.25 a day — fell in every developing region from 2005 to 2008.

Lomborg, in the Wall Street Journal, states: «In a world in which malnourishment continues to claim at least 1.4 million children's lives each year, 1.2 billion people live in extreme poverty, and 2.6 billion lack clean drinking water and sanitation, this growing emphasis on climate aid is immoral.»

At the global level, we are already far overshooting the earth's capacity to support us, even as some 1.4 billion people live in extreme poverty.

The case involved a person living in extreme poverty.