These gains would have been missed by a narrower $1.25-a-day 1.25-a-day 1.25-a-dayhe point of bundling lots of deprivations together in a single index if you then have to unpack themeasurederstand how countries are faring?
A household is deemed poor if its deprivations, duly weighted, add up to at least 33%.
Combining these deprivations into a single score, by which countries can be compared, also concentrates minds.
Small turbocharged engines mean that far from fearing the deprivations of downsizing, motorists could be pleasantly surprised.
The brief "golden age" turned to dross during the deprivations and deaths of the 1980s war with Iran, followed by 13 years of the most comprehensive sanctions ever imposed.
Thanks to his influence, the youngster was able to join the People's Liberation Army at 15 and so avoid the worst deprivations of the Cultural Revolution.
Instead, we add up deprivations, which does not.
Amina, a thoughtful young Muslim woman, had always dreamed of escaping the deprivations of her life in Bangladesh, where opportunities are slim, cousins turn violent and her father has too many debts.
Such policies were designed to protect the poor from the worst deprivations, not to raise them up.In the late 18th century attitudes towards the poor took on a moralising tone.
Like the deprivations of sanctions, intermittent bombing has become part of the fabric of Iraqi life.
Riga is a handsome port city, but in those days it was still deeply marked by the deprivations and disfigurements of the Soviet era, and pitifully poor (see chart).
