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Chapter 1 Nature, Power, and Poverty
Box 1.1, Table 1 Profiling Households in Bolivia, 1999-2003 page 6
Box 1.1, Table 2 Percent of Population Living on $1 per Day, 1981-2001 page 7
Box 1.1, Figure 1 The Many Measures of Poverty (3 maps) page 7
Box 1.1, Figure 2 Living on $2 Per Day (map) page 8
Box 1.1, Figure3 $1 and $2 Per Day Poverty Trends, 1981-2001 page 9
Table 1.1 Ecosystems Bring Jobs page 10
Minibox Table 1.1 Jordan: Less Inequality, Less Poverty page 11
Figure 1.1 United States Households Falling Below the National Poverty Line, 2000 page 12
Minibox Table 1.2 Urban-Rural Comparisons page 12
Figure 1.2 Climate Change and Food Security(map) page 13
Box 1.2, Table 1 What Can You Buy for a Dollar? page 14
Box 1.2, Table 2 What the Rural Poor Spend in Morocco page 15
Table 1.2 Bitter Bamboo and Cardamom vs. Other Income Sources, Nam Pheng Village, Lao PDR page 17
Figure 1.3 A Trend Toward Wealth, Nam Pheng Village, Lao PDR page 18
Box 1.3, Figure 1 DALYs Attributed to Environmental Health Risks page 20
Box 1.3, Figure 2 The Poor Are More Vulnerable to Health Risks page 21
Figure 1.4 Corruption by Sector in South Asia, 2002 page 24
Box 1.4, Figure 1 Rich Countries Dominate Global Exports page 28
Box 1.4, Figure 2 Financial Flows to Developing Countries, 1980-2002 page 28
Box 1.4, Figure 3 Foreign Direct Investment in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, 1993-2002 page 29
Box 1.4, Figure 4 Trends in Investment and Poverty Rates, Latin America and the Caribbean, 1981-2001 page 29
Box 1.4, Figure 5 U.S. Agricultural Price Supports, 2002 page 30
Box 1.4, Figure 6 Conditionality of Development Aid, 2002 page 30
Box 1.4, Table 1 African Countries’ Dependence on Single-Commodity Exports page 31
Box 1.4, Figure 7 Fair Trade? U.S. Cotton Subsidies and the Gross Domestic Product of Selected Cotton-Exporting Countries, 2003 page 31