...— "a condition of life so characterized by malnutrition, illiteracy, disease, squalid surroundings, high infant mortality, and low life expectancy as to be beneath any reasonable definition of human decency." The report focuses on three major areas: (1) the burgeoning...

...the end of the century will remain trapped in absolute poverty, a condition of life so characterized by malnutrition, illiteracy, disease, high infant...mortality, and low life expectancy, as to be beneath any reasonable definition of human decency. The investigative staff reviewed an abundance of evidence,...

...the end of the century will remain trapped in absolute poverty, a condition of life so characterized by malnutrition, illiteracy, disease, high infant...mortality, and low life expectancy, as to be beneath any reasonable definition of human decency. The investigative staff reviewed an abundance of evidence,...

...the end of the century will remain trapped in absolute poverty, a condition of life so characterized by malnutrition , illiteracy, disease, high infant...mortality, and low life expectancy as to be beneath any reasonable definition of human decency. The Investigative Staff reviewed an abundance of evidence reflecting...

...century will remain trapped in absolute poverty, a condition of life so characterized by nalnutrition , illiteracy, disease, high infant mortality, and low life expectancy as to be beneath any reasonable definition of hunan decency. The Investigative Staff reviewed an abundance of evidence reflecting...

...been defined by the World Bank as "so characterized by malnutrition, illiteracy, disease, squalor, high infant mortality and low life expectancy as to be beneath any reasonable definition of human decency," in a world where the US National Academy of Sciences says...

...been defined by the World Bank as "so characterized by malnutrition, illiteracy, disease, squalor, high infant mortality and low life expectancy as to be beneath any reasonable definition of human decency," in a world where the US National Academy of Sciences says...

...poverty: a condition of life so characterized by malnutrition, illiteracy, disease, squalid surroundings, high infant mortality, and low life expectancy as to be beneath any reasonable definition of human decency." 8 • "World Development Report, 1978," The World Bank, Washington,...

...Development Report, 1980 noted that there were 800 million people in the world living in absolute poverty — "a condition of life so limited by malnutrition, illiteracy,...beneath any rational definition of human decency." Then there was the report of the Independent Commission on International Development Issues entitled...

...poverty is worth recalling because of its appalling human dimensions : "Absolute poverty . . . is a life so limited by malnutrition, illiteracy, disease...infant mortality and low life expectancy as to be below any rational definition of human decency." The human costs of a continuance of this situation...