81.   Widespread poverty with enclaves of extreme wealth a source of rising discontent.

82.   Widespread poverty, high unemployment among the black majority and easy availability of guns are blamed for the crime problem.

83.   Workers accused the government of lacking a strategy to reduce communist-era state ownership and claim that high taxes are causing widespread poverty.

84.   Above all, the Colombian president said, the region must strive to narrow the gap between urban and rural development which generates widespread poverty and social conflicts.

85.   Defense ministry officials here quoted the defector as saying he had been fed up with long military service and widespread poverty in the North.

86.   Duhalde described the peso-dollar peg as the root of many of the evils affecting Argentina, from widespread poverty to the closure of factories.

87.   The Philippines economy must grow by at least six percent annually over the next decade to reduce widespread poverty, former president Fidel Ramos said Sunday.

88.   Widespread poverty and poor health increase the susceptibility of Pacific islanders to infection with the virus which is the precursor of AIDS, a UN report said Friday.

89.   Widespread poverty and unemployment are major obstacles to the organisation of trade unions in the countries concerned, the ICFTU said.

90.   Widespread poverty here has led millions of Dominicans to flee the country to seek a better life in the United States and Europe.