India's extremes of hydrology, poverty and population present vast difficulties for water management which it has never mastered.
Poverty : The Census Bureau recently reported that we have a sky-high poverty rate: 15 percent of the population lives in poverty, or 46.2 million people.
They include, in the economy, sluggish growth, widespread poverty and rapid population growth.
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"The era of easy gains where economic development would lift people out of poverty and reduce population growth is over, " says the Indian.
Today, no country is in the old sense far away when the consequences of regional instability and terrorism - and then also climate change, poverty, mass population movements and even organised crime - reverberate quickly round the globe.
But its booming economy of recent years has increased the purchasing power of its population and moved an estimated 20 million out of poverty, with the majority of the population now in the middle class for the first time ever.
Basic services such as water and electricity remain luxuries, while 25% of the population lives in poverty.
Georgia's involvement in Iraq is large for a small country where 60 percent of the population lives in poverty.
Allowing VAT on food and medicine could be costly in a country where half the population lives in poverty.
The government has to build that out or witness the rise of a massive population living in poverty in retirement.
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Over time, the proportion of the population living in poverty, as measured by some objective and absolute standard, should be declining.
One other factor has to do with the population density or poverty.
Ultimately, India's challenge is to lift the population out of poverty.
But all the while the usual disparities of wealth persisted--nearly 40% of Ecuador's population live in poverty--and the charismatic Correa marshaled a political force to exploit this.
Despite its status as a protected national park, sustainable management of the Juniper ecosystem remains threatened by the population intrusion, poverty, poor governance and the dependence of local communities on forest for goods and services.
When a community is listed as one of the poorest counties in the United States and has more than 50 percent of its population living in poverty, the options for its future may seem bleak.
Eighty percent of Haiti's population lives under the poverty line, according to the CIA World Factbook.
The key issue in Scotland is distribution of literacies skills across the population, which mirrors poverty in our communities.
Turkmenistan has the fifth-largest deposits of natural gas in the world but most of its population live in abject poverty.
The oil revenues of Equatorial Guinea, where three-quarters of the population live below the poverty line, are a state secret.
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Unemployment has reached 24% and, in what was long Latin America's richest country, almost half the population has sunk into poverty.
For what is being measured here is relative poverty: the portion of the population on less than 50% of median income.
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The Census Bureau reckons that 36.5m Americans (or 13.7% of the population) lived in poverty, about the same number as in 1995.
The economy of Bosnia and Herzegovina remains shaky--20% of the population live below the poverty line and unemployment is at an estimated 20%.
Although the economy grew about 7% in 2012, unemployment stands at 16% and more than 30% of the population live below the poverty line.
Both were popular film actors, and both appeal to the same constituency among the two-fifths of the population that live in poverty in the Philippines.
Poverty rates are also at historic levels, with 48.5 million Americans in 2011, or 15.9% of the U.S. population, living in poverty, according to the Census.
Mitman says affordability is a real issue here. 16 percent of Easton's population live below the poverty income level and unemployment is the second highest in the region.
The government defines poverty as having an income of 60% or less of the median - on this basis 13.2 million people in the UK live in poverty, 22% of the population.
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