Translation of "Absolute armut" in English

Absolute poverty here," Muitiquile says.

I've worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty. What do you say?

Secondly, there were indicators of relative poverty and indicators of absolute poverty.

The World Bank defines poverty in absolute terms.

Absolute poverty was reduced from 28 percent to 18 percent of the total population since 2010.

China aims to eradicate starvation and total poverty by 2020.

One side may be talking about absolute poverty, the other about relative poverty.

The United States, as well as Canada, Australia and, in Europe, Italy, also use measures of absolute poverty.

Between 40 million and 80 million people in developing countries will be forced into absolute poverty because of the crisis.

About 200 million people have fallen into abject poverty since the last estimate in 1993.

The World Poverty summit in Copenhagen last year set us all the ambitious aim of eliminating absolute poverty world-wide.

Of course, we are suffering from relative poverty during this present economic downturn, but we need to remember that in the developing countries, they are suffering from absolute poverty, and people are dying of hunger and disease.

Bearing in mind the objective to eradicate absolute poverty and poverty among children by 2015 as well as the target to reduce relative poverty significantly, I, too, wish to highlight the need for national minimum income thresholds to be introduced as a matter of urgency at European Union level.

An undemocratic regime, combined with unscrupulous economic exploitation, has reduced the entire population of that country to destitution.

Absolute poverty itself gives rise to real disasters on a daily basis, in the shape of malnutrition, chronic illiteracy, high rates of infant mortality, AIDS, and more besides.

A veritable force for stability, he represented the hope that the Nepalese people would emerge from absolute poverty and that the rule of law and democracy would become established for the long term.

The idea of controlling epidemic disease and cutting absolute poverty sharply by 2015 is not naïve idealism, but hard-headed thinking amply supported by the best evidence.

African observers of China's success might be tempted to conclude that rising inequality is the inevitable price of lower absolute poverty.

The NAP lays down quantified objectives with a view to eradicating child poverty, reducing absolute poverty and the poverty rate, and fighting poverty in both urban and rural environments.

In Estonia it is estimated that in 2002, using a nationally agreed indicator of absolute poverty, some 25% of the population were still living below the absolute poverty line and over a third of children were below this minimal standard of living.

Between 40 million and 80 million people in developing countries are estimated to have been forced into absolute poverty because of the food, economic and financial crisis in 2009.

Some countries refer also to national indicators of absolute poverty (Italy), non-monetary indicators of living conditions (Belgium, Italy, France), or, still, measures of self-perceived poverty or deprivation (Belgium, Italy).

Other ministers wondered if the EU target would be appropriate as it referred to relative, and not absolute, poverty.

Statistics had confirmed that relative poverty, not necessarily absolute poverty, had been increasing and hence the European Commission and the European Council were paying more attention to combating social exclusion than they had done previously.

An undemocratic regime, combined with unscrupulous economic exploitation, has reduced the entire population of that country to destitution.

And so, in a sense, I suspect EU figures don't actu­ally portray enough dispersion among countries in terms of what one might call absolute economic deprivation.

In this context it should be remembered that we are analysing relative poverty within each country, and not absolute poverty by reference to an independent cut-off threshold.