Ms. GALL: I think what it shows is there's a very, very long-term problem in Afghanistan - with a lot of unemployment, a lot of poverty, a lot of latent violence.
Each day she bounced between a home of poverty and a classroom of possibilities.
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He called in at Gee's Bend, a poor black corner of Alabama, and Inez, a tiny Kentucky coal town where Lyndon Johnson declared a war on poverty (a third of Inez's residents remain below the poverty line).
Unless you have taken a vow of poverty, being a minister does not excuse you from the custom of tipping.
One of many shantytowns that house a large portion of the city's 5 million people, it gives a taste of the poverty of the Venezuelan countryside beyond.
Based on a household sample, INE estimated a poverty rate of 37% in 2008.
Undeterred, social entrepreneurs will drive access to clean water, education, electricity and the internet for tens of millions of people living in poverty in 2013, continuing a process of both lifting people out of poverty and creating new customers for an infinite number of consumer goods.
"In a church so hit by financial scandals, someone who has lived a life of poverty and rigor lays a good foundation for the papacy, " said Mr. Melloni.
In a landmark study, the Brookings Institution found that young adults who finish high school, get a full-time job and wait until age 21 to get married and have children have just a 2% chance of falling into poverty and a 74% chance of ending up in the middle class.
We just had a century of people haranguing us that crime is a product of poverty.
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This month the Census Bureau published a preliminary estimate of poverty, using a new definition.
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The idea of relative poverty as a measure of social exclusion, however, had taken hold - not just in Britain but also at the Council of Europe, the United Nations and the OECD.
"This is an opportunity for the government to start treating the issue of rural poverty as a matter of priority even though they may not be the concerns of Islington residents, " said Mr McLeod.
Ministers took a vow of poverty, renounced all worldly possessions and transferred title to all their assets to a Church trust.
Furthermore, young adults who violate all three conditions have a 76% chance of ending up in poverty and only a 7% chance of making it to the middle class.
If the new focus on poverty leads to a better understanding of the relationship between poverty and overall economic policies, that in itself will mark a big step forward.
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In particular, it emphasises the importance of work as a route out of poverty, both for parents on low incomes and for their children once they leave school.
Other notable speakers include Dean Karlan of Yale and President of Innovations for Poverty Action, who reflected on how the perception of microfinance has gone from being a poverty panacea to a far humbler expectation of helping the poor cope.
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What makes BRAC unique is its combination of business methods with a particular view of poverty.
Would the intellectual architect of the Iraq war make as much of a hash of fighting poverty as his former employers had made of governing Iraq?
In the best of circumstances, slums offer a road out of poverty for poor people around the world.
The most serious example is Haiti, which is particularly vulnerable to extreme events because of deforestation, difficult topography, poverty and a lack of public infrastructure.
It is a sign of the poverty prevailing here - this is a place which young girls like Rizana Nafeek will continue to leave, not knowing what dangers may face them overseas.
Riots continue in London, fueled by a combination of poverty, police resentment and criminal opportunism.
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Partnership managers' boodle makes hedge fund operators look as if they've taken a vow of poverty.
We'd seen a lot of poverty in Buenos Aires, but Tucuman was even poorer.
Most often, though, it grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, hopelessness and despair.
That is not a definition of poverty that would have been recognised in the past.
Their position was that they had taken a vow of poverty and transferred all their property to BAM.
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