Their report warned that the system was driving children and families into destitution.
Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public.
This requires, quite simply, abolishing absolute poverty, the destitution in which these people live.
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The dollar-a-day definition of global destitution made its debut in the bank's 1990 World Development Report.
For the time being, strong family ties help keep destitution at bay for most of the down-at-heel.
Despite that, Mr Mbeki's family history is one of destitution, as apartheid systematically destroyed black hopes and opportunities.
The charity said that it had documented an increase in destitution among young migrants using its "New Londoners" service.
Frustrated that he was enabling their destitution, he asked how he could help.
If it does, his 300 black employees and their 1, 500 dependants face destitution.
The same sample reported that Indonesia's destitution measure was barely 8%, Sri Lanka's was below that and Thailand's lower still.
It is said that 80, 000 Irish souls were lost in the Atlantic, victims of long hunger, of fever and of destitution.
But absolutely no one at all doubts that huge reductions have been made in absolute poverty and destitution in recent decades.
There are three big concerns, of which sheer destitution is the first.
We have a trade off: long term unemployment increases from benefits extensions, human pain and suffering, destitution in fact, from no extension.
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The list of countries who have gone from destitution to what we might call lower middle class incomes is a long one.
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True, absolute, poverty, real howling destitution, is thankfully becoming rarer and rarer.
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There is the fear of economic destitution that so many Americans face.
Its role is to be something that a worker can absolutely count on to keep him out of destitution if all else fails.
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For many people this can mean destitution on top of loss of income, as medical bills pile up just as income trickles off.
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Only then will this process, this attempt to break the cycle of misery and destitution, conflict and violence, stand a chance of success.
The report defines destitution as "the lack of regular access to essential resources such as food, clothing, toiletries, medicine and a place to live".
Once again, Angola's strongmen prosper through the destitution of their people.
From the peasant destitution in which they were sunk to the very petit bougeois pleasures of three meals a day and a roof over their heads.
It said the previous Labour government had introduced a policy of "forced destitution" by cutting benefits for asylum seekers in order to discourage others from applying.
The emergency rations now being shipped, flown and trucked into the Sahel are indeed necessary and urgent by the time hunger and destitution are acute and widespread.
Prior to the War on Poverty, the United States was getting more prosperous with each passing year and there were dramatic reductions in the level of destitution.
Norway and Switzerland might arguably do even better in the EU, but they still show that an extra-EU existence for a European country does not mean destitution.
Social Security has saved millions of older Americans from destitution.
Huge swathes of our fellow humans are moving from destitution to the petit bourgeois pleasures of a roof over their heads, a change of clothes and three squares a day.
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