Sentence examples for extent of poverty from inspiring English sources

The CSJ's six-part two-year long diagnosis of the extent of poverty and social breakdown in Britain.

Such considerations suggest that the official measures understate the extent of poverty, but the opposite argument can also be made.

Later in the century, Charles Booth published a map that showed the stunning extent of poverty in London, helping to promote social reforms.

However, Fred Muhumuza, a Ugandan economist, said this positive appraisal tells us more about the extent of poverty than the value of the cash transfers.

Yesterday, the Institute for Fiscal Studies released yet another report highlighting the extent of poverty in this country and how it links to the labour market.

Amelia Gentleman draws attention to the 72% of people living in rural India and the extent of poverty and malnutrition that exists (Wealth and want, 13 May).

This is more or less a correct reflection of the extent of prevailing poverty, and therefore needs to be accepted as the new poverty line.

Similarly, John Hood, the John Locke Foundation's president, has written that "the extent of true poverty in North Carolina and around the country is woefully overestimated," and that the poverty that does exist is largely the result of "self-destructive behavior".

"Ending" child poverty is now defined in a number of statutory targets including reducing the extent of relative poverty (60% below median income) to 10% of the 13 million children in the UK.

The extent of our poverty has suddenly become visible.

But the country's privileged classes must first stop trying to downplay the extent of Nigerian poverty just because it makes us look bad.