Benefits, he says, are a "safety net to stop people falling into abject poverty".
The irony is that Angola, where 70% of the people live in abject poverty, is rich.
Thirty years of conflict had decimated infrastructure, created chronic security risks, encouraged corruption, and left most Afghans in abject poverty.
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While technology continues to improve the standard of living for millions, there are still millions more living in abject poverty.
Turkmenistan has the fifth-largest deposits of natural gas in the world but most of its population live in abject poverty.
Capitalism and technology have lifted more people out of abject poverty than anything else in the history of human civilization.
One of four children, she was born, her biographer David Weaver tells us, in abject poverty in a small town in Mississippi.
Eighty percent of the 8.7 million Haitians live in poverty and 54 percent live in abject poverty, according to the CIA's World Factbook.
Many of us do this but an entire generation is now living in fear of abject poverty because we depend so much on money.
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Abject poverty makes millions of young people vulnerable to organized crime.
China has uplifted more people out of abject poverty than the total number achieved by Europe and North America as a whole throughout the Industrial Revolution.
Over a billion people came out of abject poverty thanks to the changed economic discussion, and Kemp, Bell and others played a big role in changing it.
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Ceri Jackson, director of Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) Cymru, said the charity "regularly comes into contact with blind and partially sighted people living in abject poverty".
Which leads us rather to the conclusion that while we should of course finish the experiment we should also be trying to work out what else we might do that might successfully reduce this abject poverty.
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The most common argument for economic peace has its roots in the notion that there no real ideologues, only angry young men with no jobs, only societies where violence is sustained by the worthlessness of life in abject poverty.
People survived the abject poverty and international isolation of the last years of the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu - who ruled from 1965 to 1989 - with a diet of jokes, and alcohol, but very little open political dissent.
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