"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.
The efforts of Bono of U2 (No. 5 this year) to focus attention on world poverty, though often not pointed where we would suggest, are nevertheless worthy of attention.
The relative poverty of the east is often blamed for this discrepancy, though it probably tells only half the story.
Though overall poverty levels are falling at the rate of around one percent per year, that figure is hardly keeping pace with the high levels of economic growth reported in the business pages of India's newspapers.
Most often, though, it grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, hopelessness and despair.
Even though Labour had tried to lift people out of poverty, "some of the people in the people in the deepest poverty went backwards" under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, he added.
But with 40% of Panamanians still living in poverty, and unemployment at 8.6% last year (though falling), that will not be popular.
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What we know, though, is that this woman, like all those who worked their way out of poverty, possessed above average willpower and drive and determination.
At the turn of this century, it looked as though China would have the field pretty much to itself, having brought 250m out of poverty since its autarky ended in 1978.
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After all, though there are deprived areas in the UK they can't be compared with the grinding poverty of Venezuela's slums where the incentive to escape to a better life is surely much greater.
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Anti-poverty campaigners professed themselves pleased with this increase, though some claimed that the delay in new funding would cost millions of lives.
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