But poverty, substandard, overcrowded housing and underlying health problems are thought to be the most likely culprits, he says.
But poverty rates have fallen much more modestly.
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Rio has changed a lot since the Earth Summit, but the poverty still remains in the favelas along the hillside.
In the sad, grimy little church, he had understood how her imagination had been excited and still was, but the poverty of the place had a finality about it, even as the attempts to disguise its neglect had.
For the start of the second half manager Rafael Benitez introduced Djibril Cisse and Harry Kewell, a change that saw a more ambitious approach, but the poverty of their play in the opening period gave them too much of a mountain to climb.
People not in poverty but with low incomes would have to pay their percentage.
The problem with these mini-ghettos is that they concentrate poverty but not political or economic power.
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This has alleviated poverty but it has also encouraged an American-style driving culture (for men) and limited public transport.
But unemployment and poverty are high and life for many is hard.
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Under the previous definition, which focused on households spending 10% of their income on bills, four million households were in fuel poverty but with 7.6 million inhabitants.
The minister confirmed that 26% of households in Wales are currently believed to be in fuel poverty but statistics for winter deaths in 2009-10 were lower than those in 2008-09.
But the official poverty measure ignores many government benefits.
Finding herself among people wracked by poverty but bound by common struggles, Joan learned to beg with her baby from cars stuck in traffic and struggled to keep warm on rainy nights.
He was all but forgotten when he died, in poverty, in 1840, but, still today, looking at a Friedrich can feel like a sideways tumble into a mental state that you may recognize against your will: hypersensitive, enrapt, and dire.
Not that there will be no poverty in the world but, if the momentum continues, the extreme-poverty rate will be smaller than we can measure.
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Around 139, 800 children live in poverty in Scotland but only 97, 096 receive a free school meal, figures compiled by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) in Scotland show.
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Some studies show the programs reduced poverty, but did little to eliminate its long-term causes.
There's no official poverty line but it's generally defined as half of the city's median income.
The obesity figures do coincide quite significantly with poverty figures but it's not an exclusive relationship.
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Some studies have indicated that the programs reduced poverty, but did little to eliminate its long-term causes.
People talk a lot about poverty reduction but they don't want to talk about wealth creation in Africa.
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Americans didn't want to look at the face of poverty, but King was going to force them, he said.
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Ill health may be correlated with poverty, but is it caused by it?
Yes, we devote more ink to wealth than poverty, but we have published many articles about ways to help destitute nations.
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has repeatedly promised to work towards alleviating poverty, but millions of people have yet to feel the results.
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