The widest school choice for poor households comes when there are no tuition fees at all.
In Egypt, poor households are more likely to send their sons to school than their daughters.
And with reduced supplies available, the price of food staples soared, putting more pressure on poor households.
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More than a tiny number of those poor households today will be rich households down the road.
Microfinance is the supply of small, usually unsecured loans to poor households and small businesses in developing countries.
Less than a fifth of workers with low wages live in poor households.
Higher prices, if sustained, can help poor households in the countryside, many of whom depend on agriculture for their livelihood.
It is known that working more brings in little if any additional cash for many poor households, especially those with children.
Although these small operators charge quite steep prices, even poor households scrape together the money rather than live in the dark.
But in November 2005, it signed a deal with the US state of Massachusetts to provide cheap heating oil to poor households.
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In most poor households, no one is employed in a regular job.
Some 42m poor households toil for a government scheme that guarantees them up to 100 days of work at the minimum wage each year.
The reason: the government has backed sound economics with the transfer of 1% to 2% of gross domestic product to poor households through social programmes.
But the group's mandate is to help women and poor households.
In these neighborhoods, grocery stores and fresh produce stands are characteristically absent, and poor households must rely on cheap, high calorie foods to stave off hunger.
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What our study shows is that growth on average raises the income of poor households proportionally as much as it raises the income of the average household.
In Colombia, for example, while most young people from rich households make it to lower secondary school, only around half from poor households get the same chance.
To beat fuel poverty we either have to make energy cheaper or give more money to those fuel poor households so they can buy more of it.
Poor households must prove their straitened means to the government, which then picks up between 25% and 85% of the monthly tab for up to 15 cubic metres (3, 960 American gallons) of water.
In America, three-quarters of poor households have air-conditioning.
Money set aside for more investment in teachers and training should extend to meeting the needs of the most marginalized -- 18 million blind and disabled boys and girls, as well as rural girls from poor households.
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"The number of fuel-poor households helped by government-backed schemes is likely to more than halve over the next three years, despite fuel poverty levels having almost tripled in five years, " said Derek Lickorish, chairman of the FPAG.
Young girls from poor rural households are the least likely of any social group to be in school or to ever gain access to education.
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The proposals would also enable the gas distribution companies to connect around 80, 000 "poor fuel households" to the gas network for the first time, and pay for carbon monoxide awareness programmes.
It also cites predictions there would be three million "poor fuel" households by the end of 2006.
Poor and rural households are among the most disadvantaged.
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Since 1979, the proportion of the poor who live in households containing children and no working adults, especially one-parent families, has climbed.
"London is the only region characterised by high percentages of both breadline poor and asset wealthy households and by a very small, in relative terms, percentage of households that are in the middle, " the report found.
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