Sentence examples for amounts of poverty from inspiring English sources

Second, although South Africa has significant wealth, it also contains huge amounts of poverty and need, including one of the most significant HIV/AIDS problems worldwide.

What Cristina doesn't take into account is the amount of poverty she will be creating with her whimsical behaviour".

Although oil rich, there is a phenomenal amount of poverty throughout the country, inevitably leading to crime.

You have an overwhelming amount of poverty that tilts the dynamics, the behavior and the perception of the city.

Instead he said that Mr. Oldenburg was "more in touch with the underside of that economic moment; he's around a fair amount of poverty and misery".

"I just think that globally the amount of poverty, the disparity of wealth in the world is so disgusting and in America is just smoothed over with the jingles of corporations," he says, becoming more animated with each word.

It was only in the 1890s, when social researchers such as Charles Booth and Seebohm Rowntree started knocking on doors and actually counting poor people, that Victorian Britain got a sense of the sheer amount of poverty in their midst.

Table 1 gives the raw data from the household surveys upon which all of our analysis will be based.4 As the reader can see, there has been an impressive amount of poverty reduction in Peru since 2004.

Even if these probabilities are not as large as they were for the urban sector, they still indicate a very substantial amount of poverty reduction and upward mobility in the rural sector.

These are intentionally pretty isolated places -- they're not urban, but they have a substantial amount of poverty.

Given the huge amount of poverty, drugs and alcohol in that situation, all discipline went right out the window.