Places where poverty combines with political and social chaos tend not to work.
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Even where poverty reduction was a stated objective, little had been done to find out whether poverty had, in fact, been reduced.
Most Afghans still live in rural areas, where poverty, conflict and conservative attitudes are more likely to keep girls and women at home.
Critics say Mr. Booker's achievements may have boosted the downtown area, but he has done less for neighborhoods, where poverty and violence are concentrated.
But he finds most of his inspiration in the chaos of daily life in Mexico City, where poverty and religion, contemporary politics and indigenous traditions intermingle so easily.
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Does that mean that, if these people lived somewhere else, they wouldn't be poor or is it that people are concentrated in places where poverty is more prevalent, anyway?
Mr Mitchell told the BBC's Politics Show that if the government were to meet its eight Millennium development goals - including eradicating extreme hunger and reduce child mortality - it would have to "operate where poverty is greatest".
Whatever power structure emerges, Yemen's next leaders will face daunting tasks as they inherit a state where oil revenues have declined and the economy is in ruins, where poverty is endemic and a young and rapidly growing population faces a chronic shortage of water.
States where poverty exceeded 18 percent, the immigrant population exceeded 15 percent and the C-section rate exceeded 33 percent had 77 percent, 33 percent and 21 percent higher risks of maternal mortality, respectively, a 2007 report by Gopal K. Singh of the Health Resources and Services Administration indicated.
Bono argued that if we used transparency -- which tackles corruption like nothing else -- and technology, we can get closer to the "Zero Zone, " where extreme poverty is virtually eliminated by 2028.
Where there is poverty and lack of community involvement, schools do poorly.
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Where we experience poverty it is a distribution and opportunity issue.
Jeter escaped poverty and oppression in the south, only to head to the urban north where other forms of institutionalized poverty and racism and classism existed that would force her to make hard, terrible choices no mother should have to make.
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It also takes place in a region where the paradox of poverty and progress are sharply illuminated.
This may be surprising to those conditioned to expect miserable poverty except where oil has enriched a few.
Where there is widespread poverty, it is also much easier to find out higher level of illiteracy and a shorter life expectancy, to refer to the key elements of the Human Development Index.
We attended a town hall meeting in Detroit during our poverty tour where parents complained of 25-year-olds who came of working age before the Great Recession who have never had a job in their lives.
It also shines a light into the sort of systemic, cultural patterns that sustain poverty in places where people simply have no better opportunities.
Allowing VAT on food and medicine could be costly in a country where half the population lives in poverty.
While industrial countries are striving towards increased energy efficiency, there are areas in the world where life is characterized by energy 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.
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.
Mr Martin also questioned whether the Good Friday Agreement was delivering in real terms for people living in Northern Ireland and highlighted the issue of child poverty as an area where things were getting worse instead of better.
Dr Joseph Adelegan from Nigeria has seen poverty first hand in Africa where he worked closely with villagers to convert slaughterhouse waste to gas they use for cooking.
Ms Short wants to end all this, and concentrate Britain's aid spending on where it will do most to end poverty by allowing people to stand on their own feet.
"Across the country what we are seeing in our low-income communities, unfortunately, is poverty oftentimes predicts destiny and where kids can go, " says Shyam Kumar, the executive director of Teach for America in Metro Atlanta.
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).
Van Dyk has spoken out against the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and has become involved in a number of children's charities following an emotional visit to the Indian city of Mumbai in 2002 where he was struck by the appalling poverty he witnessed.
Inescapable pockets of poverty, urban and rural, where young adults are still fighting for their first job.
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