Surveying 140 of the United Nations' 188 members, the report found that 77percentt of countries had estimated their incidence of poverty -- including extreme poverty, measured by the inability to buy enough food for daily needs -- but that only 40percentt had incorporated anti-poverty measures into national planning and 29percentt had dedicated anti-poverty projects.
The 17 October International Day for the Eradication of Poverty began in 1987 to bring together all those who are dedicated to overcoming poverty all year round and those who live with it on a daily basis.
One of its erstwhile managers introduced me to the Territory, insisting that his old haunt is now frozen by the rigor mortis of its own legend and that the Territory has sprung up as its self-conscious alternative, a semi-commune dedicated to artsy poverty in an era that has not been kind to artsy poverty.
But his real motivation for wanting to change it is surely how it affects government policy.A dedicated, income-based poverty measure committed the last government to supporting household incomes, with tax credits and other benefits.
Within a few hours, he was told to get to Miami in 48 hours to meet an MD-11 airliner arriving from Denver that was filled with relief supplies collected by World Vision, a Christian group dedicated to eradicating poverty.
As the chief executive of FXB International, a nongovernmental organization dedicated to reducing poverty and fighting AIDS in the developing world, I often see firsthand that more needs to be done to help the disabled.
"The key is coming up with a vision of how we are going to finance mitigation and adaptation to climate change," said Kim, who runs an institution dedicated to eradicating poverty in the developing world.
After leaving journalism, she became the head of Empower America, a Reagan-era conservative research organization that is dedicated to fighting poverty through free-market forces and individual responsibility.
After his second conversion, Funnye taught Hebrew and Jewish subjects at Chicago-area congregations and worked for the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, a group dedicated to fighting poverty, racism and anti-Semitism in the city.
The film is hardly the romantic fantasy that many critics have made it out to be; its true love interest is American movies of the most disreputable sort — it's dedicated to the Poverty Row studio, Monogram Pictures.
