During the same period, absolute poverty in the population as a whole dropped from 50% to 6.8%.

Despite the positive impact of lower prices on poor consumers, absolute poverty increased.

They were never more than a short step from absolute poverty.

As a result, the charity argues, by 2015-15 a further half a million children will be living in absolute poverty.

She has lived much of her life in absolute poverty, never knowing whether there would be food for the next family meal.

And how could she, in her all but absolute poverty, do anything?

Over the last decade, the number of women living in absolute poverty has risen.

And why, as your report points out, do women make up 70% of the 1.3 billion people living in absolute poverty?

According to him, the higher the economic growth the more will be the increase in the magnitude of absolute poverty.

The number of people living in absolute poverty has declined, from 56 to 35 percent since 1992.