The family lived in penury.

They are living in misery.

I lived in poverty.

She's desperately poor.

But his troubles were not over.

The End of Want?

Some 40 of the world s 6.5 billion people live in poverty, and a sixth live in extreme poverty.

Moreover, average findings conceal large differences in some countries the poor can benefit from economic growth, in others they may be too deprived to take advantage of it.

One side may be talking about absolute poverty, the other about relative poverty.

The Poverty of Thinking About Poverty

Many Africans will fall back into desperate poverty.

Yet he dances while people are in poverty.

Millions of people were living in poverty after the earthquake.

Twenty eight percent of the residents of Xochimilco live in extreme poverty.

A tweet by Christos Pappas, a Greek Golden Dawn member of parliament, proclaimed Long Live ELAM Long Live Golden Dawn

With more than 40 of Latin America's population living in poverty, Cuba stands out as an example of a country where being poor does not mean a life of squalor.

I am a man of yesterday's culture. I grew up on examples of artists who lived poor and died in poverty, refused money for the sake of painting.

This is Africa. 10 percent the world population, most in poverty.

The number of people living in extreme poverty would fall by 160 million.

But much of central and western China is mired in poverty

Social conditions are abysmal, in line with such poverty.

A small event say, an illness in the family can push them back into destitution.

China has no other choice but to pursue sustainable development in order to meet the basic needs of its people and to eradicate poverty.

Indeed, by United Nations standards, China still has 150 million people living in poverty.

He probably knew his sister, Adela, well, as the two were close in age.

Forest resources directly contribute to the livelihoods of 90 of the 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty.

Unless and until widespread family planning and modern contraceptive services are established, expanding populations in the Horn of Africa will crash against a harsher future climate.

This lawless legality is all too common in a country where 85 of people live in abject poverty.

Third, the region is already living in extreme poverty, so adverse shocks push it toward calamity.

She died in poverty, poor even among the poor, and was buried in a common grave.

As a cardinal, Lotario wrote De miseria humanae conditionis (On the Misery of the Human Condition).

As a result, the percentage of Africa s population living in extreme poverty increased from 41.6 in 1981 to 46.9 in 2001.

Religion, we are told, is responsible for violence, oppression, poverty, and many other ills.

We realise the worthiness of his actions when we learn he lived in poverty because of dire economic situation in country.

In poverty one still keeps a kind of innate noble sentiment, while in misery moral collapse is inherent and disastrous.

Indian cities such as Bangalore, Chennai (formerly Madras), Mumbai (formerly Bombay) and Hyderabad are becoming locations for software and hardware exports, the cutting edge of India's modern economy.

Though much of rural India remains impoverished, new dynamic urban based centers of information technology are springing up around the country.

While there, he interacted with a few locals and then jotted down their stories of extreme poverty (RUS) on his blog.

(a) Exploring viable options to reach people living in poverty, in particular women, including through international public and or private funds

(a) Exploring viable options with respect to reaching people living in poverty, in particular women, including through international public and or private funds

In response to one of the FAQs on its website asking what makes you think we can end extreme poverty?

Of course, many social problems run in families our societies are not egalitarian people living in poverty tend to rear children who live in poverty.

The MDGs focus on some of the world s most pressing development issues, such as poverty, gender, health and basic literacy.

That could, in theory, leave the worst off 500 million people in poverty just as dire as they are now experiencing.

Government statistics show that 30.5 percent of families in Negros Occidental (the island's western side) live in poverty, while the figure jumps to 46.6 percent of families in Negros Oriental (the eastern side).