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| | Center for Immigration Studies |
 | | The poverty rate for immigrants is 50 percent higher than that of natives, with immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under age 21) accounting for 22 percent of all persons living in poverty. | | | The poverty rate for children and for most young adults reflects their parents income, therefore it is reasonable to view poverty among the U.S.-born children of immigrants as attributable to their immigrant parents. | | | As a percentage of the population, immigrants now account for more than one in 10 residents (10.4 percent), the highest percentage in 70 years. |
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| | Poverty line - |
| | Determining the poverty line is usually done by finding the total cost of all the essential resources that an average human adult consumes in one year. | | | The poverty line is the level of income below which one cannot afford to purchase all the resources one requires to live. | | | Using a poverty line is problematic because having an income marginally above it is not substantially different from having an income marginally below it: the negative effects of poverty tend to be continuous rather than discrete, and the same low income affects different people in different ways. |
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http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Poverty_line
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| | Theme Study : Sustainable Social Development -- Chapter II |
| | Trends in the incidence of poverty, as revealed by the country-specific data, tally with the idea that during the 1990s, which were the years of rapid globalization, the advances registered in the "war against poverty" in a few countries in the Asian and Pacific region have either been weakened or partially reversed. | | | Poverty estimates for individual reference years in many countries have been computed by extrapolation, using the figures on mean consumption from national accounts and assuming that the distribution had not changed since the previous or succeeding survey. | | | Poverty is thus better measured in terms of basic education, health care, nutrition, water and sanitation, as well as income, employment and wages. |
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| | Report of the Independent Expert on human |
| | Of all European countries, it is Portugal that has most recently tried to enact a range of instruments to combat poverty; these include the Act of 29 June 1996, introducing a guaranteed minimum income of 23,000 escudos per month, and targeting in particular women and children (who comprise 43 per cent of its beneficiaries). | | | The total debt of developing countries has risen relentlessly from $1.6 trillion in 1993 to $1.9 trillion in 1995. | | | Poverty and inequality are therefore violations of these human rights and others such as the right to life, the right to participate, freedom of expression and association, and the principle of non-discrimination. |
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| | policyforum-07.htm |
| | The countries of the North are alarmed by the growth of immigrants. | | | The rich countries deliberately understate the extent of poverty because they do not wish to draw attention to the failed policies of the past four decades or to their responsibility for the problem. | | | The total world population is six billion out of which one billion live in the rich countries and five billion live in the developing countries. |
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| | The Extent of Material Hardship and Poverty in the United States |
| | The government's determination of poverty is based only on annual income; all assets accumulated by a household in prior years are ignored. | | | The hardship population was 26 percent of the size of the official poverty population in 1992. | | | The chief merit of this income-based poverty measure is simplicity; it allows the numbers of the poor to be crisply reported, and permits the concept of poverty status to be readily incorporated into a wide range of surveys and studies. |
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http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/wm187.cfm
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| | WTO Trade Statistics |
| | Under the Uruguay Round Agreement on Textiles and Clothing, FW countries were obliged to have removed 33% of their quota restrictions on textiles by 2001 and all by 2005. | | | Developing countries face higher tariffs on processed goods than on commodities; this is one of the reasons that the poorest countries are heavily dependent on a few commodities. | | | It is time we examined whether this is really the appropriate tactic to raising living standards, or whether listening to the concerns of the poor is in fact necessary. |
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http://www.gatt.org/trastat_e.html
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| | A silent war; The devastating impact of debt on the poor - Global Issues |
| | The year 2000 could signal the beginning of dramatic improvements in healthcare, education, employment and development for countries crippled by debt. | | | Of the 32 countries classified as severely indebted low-income countries, 25 are in sub-Saharan Africa. | | | As schools are forced to charge fees, fewer people are able to send their children and education is mainly available only to the better-off. |
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http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/ExternalArticles/silent.asp
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| | City Mayors: Urban slums |
| | At least one billion people live in slums, with the highest percentage of them found in Asia, Africa and Latin America, according to a new report by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT). | | | The deterioration of the living environment was not limited to the poorest countries, and the report’s recommendations were aimed at the entire world. | | | On 1 January 2002 the agency’s mandate was strengthened and its status elevated to that of a fully fledged programme of the UN system in UN General Assembly Resolution A/56/206. |
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http://www.citymayors.com/report/slums.html
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| | List of Countries By GDP (PPP) Account @ VariedTastes.com (Varied Tastes) |
| | List of Countries By GDP (PPP) Account @ VariedTastes.com (Varied Tastes) | | | List of countries by ratio of GDP to carbon dioxide emissions | | | List of countries by GDP estimates for 2006 (PPP) - GDP estimates for 2006 calculated by the IMF |
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http://www.variedtastes.com/encyclopedia/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
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| | STATISTICAL RESOURCES ON THE WEB/DEMOGRAPHICS |
| | List of Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAS) for all 50 states and District of Columbia with PUMA number, place/county/tract, and total population | | | Provides numbers and percentage of workers from own county and individual counties and countries around the world | | | Family Budget Calculator suggests the minimum amount needed to live by city and type of family |
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http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stdemog.html
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| | United Nations Statistics Division - Common Database |
| | The $1.08 a day standard was chosen to be equal to the median of the lowest ten poverty lines among a set of low-income countries. | | | The measures of household living standards are normalized by household size and sample expansion factors (when relevant) so that a given fractile (such as the poorest decile) should have the same share of the country-specific population across the sample. | | | The proportion of people below $1 a day is the percentage of the population with average consumption expenditures less than $1.08 a day measured in 1993 prices converted using purchasing power parity (PPP) rates. |
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http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cdb/cdb_dict_xrxx.asp?def_code=429
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| | NationMaster.com - Map & Graph: Countries by Economy > Population below poverty line |
| | India is listed amoung poor countries but not even mentioned its name in the list of Education. | | | National estimates of the percentage of the population lying below the poverty line are based on surveys of sub-groups, with the results weighted by the number of people in each group. | | | For example, rich nations generally employ more generous standards of poverty than poor nations. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/eco_pop_bel_pov_lin
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Japan |
| | Japan's huge government debt, which totals 170% of GDP, and the aging of the population are two major long-run problems. | | | In 2004 and 2005, growth improved and the lingering fears of deflation in prices and economic activity lessened. | | | Some fear that a rise in taxes could endanger the current economic recovery. |
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http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/print/ja.html
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| | Extreme poverty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | List of countries by percentage of population living in poverty | | | Eradication of extreme poverty and hunger by 2015 is a Millennium Development Goal. | | | Extreme poverty is the most severe state of poverty, where people have minimal or very limited access to basic necessities, such as food, clothing, shelter, education and health care. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty
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| | List of countries by population - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography |
| | List of countries by population, Notes, See also and Lists of countries. | | | List of countries and capitals in native languages | | | This is a list of sovereign states and other territories by population, with population figures estimated for 1 July 2005 (rounded to the nearest 1,000). |
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http://www.arikah.net/encyclopedia/List_of_countries_by_population
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| | MOFA: Japan's Basic Position on the Debt Problem Faced by the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs) |
| | Debt relief alone is not a panacea for the problem of poverty in developing countries. | | | When purchasing imported goods with debt-relief grant aid, the debtor country is completely free to decide from which country it will import; eligible source countries are OECD members and developing countries and territories on the DAC List of Aid Recipients, excluding the debtor country itself. | | | Japan is a major donor not just for Asian countries but also for the HIPCs, comprising mainly African countries, to which its provision of ODA, mainly in the form of grants, ranks as one of the largest (see Chart 2). |
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| | Death Ends Fun: 7.1 per cent at a blow |
| | The per capita consumption of milk of the 250 million at the lower poverty levels is 25 gms a day. | | | Since each transaction is expenditure for one party and income for the other, the net sum divided by popln gives the per capita income. | | | If the per capita is 21000 then a family of 4 earns 84K pa. which is frankly speaking a comfortable amount. |
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| | Death Ends Fun: 7.1 per cent at a blow |
| | Since each transaction is expenditure for one party and income for the other, the net sum divided by popln gives the per capita income. | | | The per capita consumption of milk of the 250 million at the lower poverty levels is 25 gms a day. | | | That per capita income rose sharply by 7.1 per cent in real terms -- "to Rs 11,799 in 2003-04." The rise was "from Rs 11,013 the previous year". |
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| | Category:Lists of countries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | List of countries by percentage of population living in poverty | | | List of countries and territories by current account balance | | | List of countries by ratio of GDP to carbon dioxide emissions |
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| | Category:Lists of countries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | List of countries by percentage of population living in poverty | | | List of countries and territories by current account balance | | | List of members of the Commonwealth of Nations by continent |
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Nigeria |
| | In November 2005, Abuja won Paris Club approval for an historic debt relief deal that by March 2006 should eliminate $30 billion worth of Nigeria's total $36 billion external debt. | | | In 2003 the government began deregulating fuel prices, announced the privatization of the country's four oil refineries, and instituted the National Economic Empowerment Development Strategy, a domestically designed and run program modeled on the IMF's Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility for fiscal and monetary management. | | | In the last year the government has begun showing the political will to implement the market-oriented reforms urged by the IMF, such as to modernize the banking system, to curb inflation by blocking excessive wage demands, and to resolve regional disputes over the distribution of earnings from the oil industry. |
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| | AEI - Short Publications |
| | The disparity in per-capita emissions, based in large part on widespread poverty, is one of the reasons developing countries resist suggestions that they should in any way limit their economic growth to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. | | | These findings suggest that there is significant potential for reducing emissions from developing countries by increasing the rate of investment to speed the process of modernization and capital turnover, which is even now reducing emissions intensity and improving the technology used in new investment to a level comparable to that in developed countries. | | | Participating in international emission trading is seen as a means of providing compensation to developing countries for the additional costs they would have to incur. |
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| | Ian Castles and David Henderson:IPCC Issues: A Swag of Documents |
| | The ratio of use of energy per unit of GDP in non-OECD countries to that in OECD countries, calculated using PPPs rather than the spurious exchange-rate conversion basis favoured by the Bank (and the IPCC), is not 3.8:1 but 1.2:1. | | | They had thereby been led to overstate the growth in average incomes in developing countries that would be required to achieve the much more even distribution in global income that is envisaged in most of the scenarios. | | | In order to move from this initial ratio of 16.7 to the postulated 1.8 in 2100, given the projected growth in the Annex 1 group, the total GDP of the Annex 2 countries is projected to rise, between 1990 and 2100, by a factor of just under 65. |
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| | The Math Forum - Math Library - Population |
| | Graphical and textual summaries of the demographic characteristics of the U.S. population: marriage and family; population estimates and projections; education, race, and ethnicity; income and poverty; foreign-born population; migration; children; older...more>> | | | The Math Forum is a research and educational enterprise of the Drexel School of Education. | | | The agency for official statistics for the country of Luxembourg. |
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| | List of countries by population (graphical) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Population (graphical) · Population density · Life expectancy · Infant mortality rate · Fertility rate&;· Birth rate · Death rate · Human Development Index · Income equality · Literacy rate&;· HIV/AIDS adult prevalence rate · People living with HIV/AIDS · Unemployment rate · Percentage of population living in poverty | | | For a detailed, non-graphical version of this list, including notes and references, see List of countries by population. | | | This is a graphical list of sovereign states and other territories by population, estimated for the year 2005. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_(graphical)
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| | More World-Wide Sustainability Resources |
| | Over 1600 practices from 140 countries demonstrate practical ways in which public, private and civil society sectors are working together to improve governance, eradicate poverty, provide housing, land and basic services, protect the environment and support economic development. | | | Established in 1993 in the framework of Eurocities, TeleCities is open to democratically elected city governments as well as to business and scientific partners: over 100 local authorities from 20 different European countries. | | | While such a listing is inevitably idiosyncratic and personal, and incomplete, for those who care it should be a source of not only help but of a certain, measured, hopefulness. |
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http://www.earthcfd.org/general/resources.htm
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