In the study, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) foresees the increase of poverty in the region by 1.1%, and of extreme poverty by 0.8%, compared to 2008.
His poverty-stricken region suffers regular power cuts and other miseries.
Like President Bush, they maintain that a trading hemisphere is a prosperous one and that it's key to creating jobs and alleviating the poverty in a region where there's an estimated 100 million poor people.
DonorsChoose.org allows people to help fund a specific project-all of which are submitted by real teachers and carefully vetted by the DonorsChoose.org team-based on the class location, the subject of the request, the level of poverty in the region or any other criteria they choose.
For example, 19% of the region's population is over pensionable age, and poverty among pensioners in this region is the second highest in England.
The rate of poverty in the Sahara region has been reduced from 29.4% in 1975 to 6.2%.
As commodity prices rose, poverty increased in the region even before recession struck.
Unfortunately, experience suggests the most likely outcome is yet more blundering in and out of ceasefires and abortive peace deals, while the region remains in grinding poverty.
It also takes place in a region where the paradox of poverty and progress are sharply illuminated.
Key themes of SD in the region include among other things poverty alleviation, citizenship, peace, ethics, responsibility in local and global contexts, democracy and governance, justice, security, human rights, health, gender equity, cultural diversity, rural and urban development, economy, production and consumption patterns, corporate social responsibility, environmental protection, climate change, prevention and adaptation, natural resource management, biological and landscape diversity.
These results indicate a change in the trends of poverty reduction that has been achieved in the Region.
In Central California, the nation's agricultural powerhouse and a region with one of the highest poverty levels, the 1986 law had a profound impact on people like Mejia.
Often, the future of entire families is in the balance as these Roma, among the most poverty-stricken people in a deeply impoverished region, seek to forge mutually beneficial unions that will help them weather Bulgaria's brutal economic downturn.
That may be inevitable in a region of such deep inequalities and widespread poverty.
Just as lacking is technical and management training that could help to lift the region's dry-farmers out of poverty.
The money to be made from killing elephants for a living is also tempting for many people in the region, where population growth is rapid and poverty rates are high.
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.
Several initiatives were launched in the region to improve quality and equity in education and counter poverty and inequality.
We decided to work in close collaboration with partner organizations in Africa, the second-fastest growing region in the world that also shoulders the highest burden of poverty.
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And fourth, some reformers, as well as critics, argued that in a region of deep income inequality, growth alone would not swiftly reduce poverty.
Supporters say the law, which took 14 years to pass, will reduce poverty and maternal mortality in a country with the highest birth rate in the region.
The draft agreement would give the leaders of the Bangsamoro more political and economic powers, promises the people a "just and equitable share" of the region's abundant natural resources, and pledges to address the needs of poverty-stricken communities.
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