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Posted: 12/5/2012 2:08:23 AM EST
In this July 6, 2012 photo, pieces of coal lay in a pile at the Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi, a coal mining company in Tavan Tolgoi, southern Mongolia. Chinese demand for copper and especially coal has propelled the Mongolian economy to one of the world's fastest growing, making some wealthy and driving down poverty in a still poor country, and China wants a larger share of the resources. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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Posted: 12/5/2012 2:08:23 AM EST
In this July 6, 2012 photo, a truck loaded with coal drives to a process station at Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi, a Mongolian state-owned coal mining company in Tavan Tolgoi, southern Mongolia. Chinese demand for copper and especially coal has propelled the Mongolian economy to one of the world's fastest growing, making some wealthy and driving down poverty in a still poor country, and China wants a larger share of the resources. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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Posted: 12/5/2012 2:08:23 AM EST
In this July 6, 2012 photo, a Mongolian miner smiles while working at Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi, a Mongolian state-owned coal mining company in Tavan Tolgoi, southern Mongolia. Chinese demand for copper and especially coal has propelled the Mongolian economy to one of the world's fastest growing, making some wealthy and driving down poverty in a still poor country, and China wants a larger share of the resources. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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Posted: 11/29/2012 4:08:29 PM EST
FILE - In this June 12, 2012 file photo, Mexico's President Felipe Calderon speaks during a news conference at Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City. When Calderon came to power six years ago, he set goals to alleviate poverty, create jobs and increase public safety. As he winds up his term on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2102, Calderon leaves Mexico with fiscal stability that saved the country from collapse during the world’s economic crisis, but with far greater violence, very little change in poverty levels and anemic job growth. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)
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Posted: 11/29/2012 4:08:27 PM EST
FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2011 file photo, Mexico's President Felipe Calderon holds a news conference at Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City. When Calderon came to power six years ago, he set goals to alleviate poverty, create jobs and increase public safety. As he winds up his term on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2102, Calderon leaves Mexico with fiscal stability that saved the country from collapse during the world’s economic crisis, but with far greater violence, very little change in poverty levels and anemic job growth. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)
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Posted: 11/29/2012 4:08:25 PM EST
FILE - In this June 9, 2006 file photo, Mexican presidential candidate Felipe Calderon, of the National Action Party (PAN), speaks during an interview on his private bus after a campaign stop in San Jose del Rincon, Mexico. When Calderon came to power six years ago, he set goals to alleviate poverty, create jobs and increase public safety. As he winds up his term on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2102, Calderon leaves Mexico with fiscal stability that saved the country from collapse during the world’s economic crisis, but with far greater violence, very little change in poverty levels and anemic job growth. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
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Posted: 11/27/2012 5:33:29 PM EST
Christine Sun, right, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center, confers with Michael Ferguson, second right, and his partner Seth Anderson, before a news conference, in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. Ferguson, of Salt Lake City, is one of four gay men accusing a New Jersey organization of selling "conversion therapy" services promising to make them straight. Instead, they told the news conference that they were subjected to humiliations, including having to strip naked, or taking a baseball bat to effigies of their mothers. Sam Wolfe, staff attorney for the SPLC is at background center. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Posted: 11/27/2012 5:33:29 PM EST
Chaim Levin, left, talks with Christine Sun, right, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center, as Michael Ferguson, background right, stands with his partner Seth Anderson, after a news conference, in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. Levin, of the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. NY, and Ferguson, of Salt Lake City, who are gay, are accusing a New Jersey organization of selling "conversion therapy" services promising to make them straight. Instead, they told the news conference that they were subjected to humiliations, including having to strip naked, or taking a baseball bat to effigies of their mothers. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Posted: 11/17/2012 10:38:29 AM EST
A voter, right, fills out his ballots by the light of a battery-powered lamp, at a polling station in the Kroo Bay neighborhood of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. A decade after Sierra Leone's brutal civil war, voters on Saturday chose between an incumbent president who has provided new roads and free health care and a field of opposition candidates who decry the poverty and pace of economic recovery.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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Posted: 11/17/2012 10:38:29 AM EST
Rocks and stones are laid on the ground to mark the places for hundreds of voters turned out in line before dawn to queue outside a polling station in central Freetown, Sierra Leone, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. A decade after Sierra Leone's brutal civil war, voters on Saturday chose between an incumbent president who has provided new roads and free health care and a field of opposition candidates who decry the poverty and pace of economic recovery.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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Posted: 11/17/2012 10:38:29 AM EST
Voters fill out their ballots behind privacy screens as poll workers oversee the process, at a polling station in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. A decade after Sierra Leone's brutal civil war, voters on Saturday chose between an incumbent president who has provided new roads and free health care and a field of opposition candidates who decry the poverty and pace of economic recovery. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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Posted: 11/17/2012 10:38:29 AM EST
Supporters of incumbent President Ernest Bai Koroma cheer and hold up four fingers to show they want the ruling party to sweep the elections, as Koroma leaves after voting, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. A decade after Sierra Leone's brutal civil war, voters on Saturday chose between an incumbent president who has provided new roads and free health care and a field of opposition candidates who decry the poverty and pace of economic recovery.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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Posted: 11/17/2012 10:38:29 AM EST
Voters wait in line to cast their ballots in presidential, parliamentary, and local elections, outside a polling station in the Kroo Bay neighborhood of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. A decade after Sierra Leone's brutal civil war, voters on Saturday chose between an incumbent president who has provided new roads and free health care and a field of opposition candidates who decry the poverty and pace of economic recovery.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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Posted: 11/17/2012 10:38:28 AM EST
Incumbent President Ernest Bai Koroma waves to supporters as he leaves the polling station after voting, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. A decade after Sierra Leone's brutal civil war, voters on Saturday chose between an incumbent president who has provided new roads and free health care and a field of opposition candidates who decry the poverty and pace of economic recovery.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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Posted: 11/14/2012 5:33:43 PM EST
Graphic shows new census poverty data by age group
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Posted: 11/8/2012 4:53:24 AM EST
In this photo taken on Oct. 4, 2012, Faizal Zulkifli leaves his house after lunch at a rural community in Pulau Manis village, Pahang state, Malaysia, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. Faizal Zulkifli, a father of three, is one of villagers living for free in low-cost bungalows and working on a high-tech hydroponic farm, a setup the Malaysian technology firm Iris Corp. hopes to replicate elsewhere. The government is now involved in a plan to build similar villages across this Southeast Asian country, where nearly one of 10 people in rural provinces lives below the official poverty line. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
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Posted: 11/8/2012 4:53:24 AM EST
In this photo taken Oct. 4, 2012, a worker checks her plant in a plant nursery, using technology called the "autopot system" at a rural community in Pulau Manis village, Pahang state, Malaysia. Malaysian technology firm Iris Corp. built two years ago this rural community where villagers - 80 families in all - live for free in low-cost bungalows and work on a high-tech hydroponic farm, a setup the company hopes to replicate elsewhere. The government is now involved in a plan to build similar villages across this Southeast Asian country, where nearly one of 10 people in rural provinces lives below the official poverty line. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
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Posted: 11/5/2012 7:18:57 PM EST
A resident watches TV in a common area in front of his bed which he rents for $167 as his home in Hong Kong November 1, 2012. In October, Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying singled out the re-emergence of cage homes - wire mesh hutches stacked on top of each other - and cubicle apartments as issues that highlighted the gravity of poverty that existed alongside one of Asia's glittering financial centres. More than 1.1 million people, or 17 percent of Hong Kong's population, lived below the poverty line in 2011, earning less than HK$3,500 ($450) per month, according to the Hong Kong Council of Social Services. It defined poverty as earning less than half of the average monthly income. Picture taken November 1, 2012. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
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Posted: 11/5/2012 7:18:57 PM EST
A general view shows bed-homes in Hong Kong November 1, 2012. In October, Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying singled out the re-emergence of cage homes - wire mesh hutches stacked on top of each other - and cubicle apartments as issues that highlighted the gravity of poverty that existed alongside one of Asia's glittering financial centres. More than 1.1 million people, or 17 percent of Hong Kong's population, lived below the poverty line in 2011, earning less than HK$3,500 ($450) per month, according to the Hong Kong Council of Social Services. It defined poverty as earning less than half of the average monthly income. Picture taken November 1, 2012. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
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Posted: 11/5/2012 7:18:57 PM EST
Residents watch TV in an common area in front of their beds which they rent for $167 as their home in Hong Kong November 1, 2012. In October, Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying singled out the re-emergence of cage homes - wire mesh hutches stacked on top of each other - and cubicle apartments as issues that highlighted the gravity of poverty that existed alongside one of Asia's glittering financial centres. More than 1.1 million people, or 17 percent of Hong Kong's population, lived below the poverty line in 2011, earning less than HK$3,500 ($450) per month, according to the Hong Kong Council of Social Services. It defined poverty as earning less than half of the average monthly income. Picture taken November 1, 2012. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
