"We're seeing a reduction in poverty, indigence in urban areas; unemployment is going down," Mr Vittrup said.
In addition, 95.6%% of the population lives just above the poverty line while 3%% are in between indigence and the poverty line and finally 1.4%% below the poverty line.
One of the few NGOs interested in the issue of indigence in Africa [ 77], funded by UNICEF at the time, abandoned this issue.
That moment atop the pigeon roost, as he recounts in his memoir, "No Way Home," marked his first step from indigence in Cuba to a life of fame and glamour.
Having dispossessed them and pushed them into a downward spiral of indigence, in a cruel sleight of hand the government began to use their own penury against them.
After fifty years of indigence in England, Potter, a pitiful old man, returns to Boston on the Fourth of July , 1826 and a parade, passing by Faneuil Hall, nearly runs him over.
While an undergraduate at King's College (later Columbia University), he argued that the Colonies ought to be free because enslavement to Britain "relaxes the sinews of industry, clips the wings of commerce, and introduces misery and indigence in every shape".
He goes on to relay the additional agony of his largely self-inflicted indigence in London, which he spent roaming the streets with a "noble minded" prostitute called Ann; and later his opium-fuelled Saturday nights, walking "without much regarding the direction or the distance, to all the markets, and other parts of London, to which the poor resort".
At the time, alcoholism was still widely considered a failure of will; alcoholics were institutionalized, incarcerated, or left to sink into indigence.
Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto has argued that the secret to loosening the bonds of indigence lies in private ownership.
