This requires, quite simply, abolishing absolute poverty, the destitution in which these people live.
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The authors thus base their absolute poverty line on the 15 countries in their sample below this threshold.
The sharp increase in this sort of household therefore reflects an increase in inequality, not in absolute poverty.
But the bank might do more harm than good if it shifted focus from absolute poverty to relative deprivation.
Other places, perhaps Bangladesh and The Congo, just as examples, have not and so have not so abolished absolute poverty.
The President, Flight Lieutenant Gerry Rawlings, is seriously talking about eliminating absolute poverty in his country by the year 2020.
Those laws were brought in at around and about the time that the absolute poverty which caused it was disappearing anyway.
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But absolutely no one at all doubts that huge reductions have been made in absolute poverty and destitution in recent decades.
Hundreds of millions of people have been dragged out of absolute poverty.
For being able to aid in reducing the absolute poverty of a billion of more of our fellow humans would be highly desirable.
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In sub-Saharan Africa, half the population is living in absolute poverty.
"We can be the generation that eradicates absolute poverty in our world, " he said, but only if leaders focus on the cause, not the symptoms.
Some 300 million farmers have been lifted out of absolute poverty.
But Bulke also pointed to the progress made by the private sector in the development of emerging economies, which has in return reduced rates of absolute poverty.
Thanks to stability and Mr Museveni's liberal economic policies, the proportion of Ugandans living in absolute poverty fell from over 50% in 1994 to 33% in 2000.
Ms Toynbee, however, has focused on successive governments' failure to tackle inequality and pressed the notion of relative rather than absolute poverty which has grown, even under Labour.
What gives a particularly sharp edge to the debate in this country is the claim that it is relative poverty, not absolute poverty, which has led to this deterioration.
The removal of fuel subsidies - long pushed for by the IMF - was a devastating blow to the large number of Nigerians who live in absolute poverty, correspondents say.
"We reject their claims about poverty in the UK", he said of his government's critics, arguing that absolute poverty had been abolished and that relative poverty was no more than inequality.
Market-driven policies, topped up with targeted subsidies, should be able to reach many of the 1.3 billion people living in what economists call absolute poverty, with incomes of less than a dollar a day.
Of these, 1.3 million pensioners earned so little that they were considered to be in "absolute" poverty.
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True, absolute, poverty, real howling destitution, is thankfully becoming rarer and rarer.
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Although absolute levels of poverty have dipped, the gulf between rich and poor is still widening.
It is quite likely that in the past couple of years absolute levels of poverty have decreased, simply because employment has risen, while relative poverty has not, because economic growth has meant big increases in income for some at the top.
Despite a much-aired fall in the poverty rate from 69% in 1997 to 54% in 2003, the absolute number living below the poverty line rose to 11.7m in a population of around 20m.
Is poverty an absolute or relative condition?
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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.
This absurd result occurs since a relative poverty measure is used, rather than an absolute measure (although these measures are not without their own problems).
And though absolute numbers have risen, the proportion of Latin Americans living in poverty more important than inequality in human life, even if less so in politics has fallen, slowly, since 1990.
In setting their poverty lines, most developing countries aim to count people who are poor in an absolute sense.
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