The Business of Fighting Poverty

We need new ways, better ways, to cope with poverty, wars and disease.

Corruption also weakens governments and lessens their ability to fight poverty.

The poverty reduction strategies and desertification thus relate to a shared field of action.

They are valuable instruments in combatting poverty, social exclusion, lack of toleration, xenophobia, racism.

Industrial expansion is the best way to eradicate poverty, and must surely trump environmental concerns.

The tsunami disaster also underscored the continuing challenge of poverty reduction in the region.

These programs are designed to reduce poverty by making welfare programs conditional upon the recipients actions.

The remaining 372 million would be allocated to poverty programmes outside the areas of the Plan.

The Government was taking a broad range of initiatives to address poverty the objective was its total eradication.

It also promotes the innovation and development by state authorities of better instruments for overcoming poverty. The programme establishes two support modalities directed to that end.

Several reports include paragraphs indicating that NAPs fit in perfectly with poverty reduction strategies.

Several reports include paragraphs indicating that the NAP is perfectly linked with the strategic framework for poverty alleviation.

She also served in the administration of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson working on anti poverty programs.

Both the Haitian interlocutors and the mission stressed the need for a long term strategy to promote development and combat poverty.

Anti Poverty 2.0

The Digital War on Poverty

Nothing enrages WTO bashers more than suspicions that, when push comes to shove, the WTO allows trade to trump the environment or human rights. Developing countries should resist a system that evaluates their needs from the perspective of expanding world trade instead of alleviating poverty.

Developing countries should resist a system that evaluates their needs from the perspective of expanding world trade instead of alleviating poverty.

Such a policy would put US private saving to important use in fighting global poverty, while strengthening the US industrial base.

These organizations are making a significant contribution to the economic advancement of women, because they work at the grassroots level to reduce social inequality and combat poverty.

Particular emphasis is placed on the development of a microcredit programme, which has been recognized throughout the world as an effective means of reducing poverty and unemployment.

Crime has often been related to poverty.

The question of production is given ample coverage by organizations which are active specifically in the areas of agriculture, the promotion of food security and poverty reduction.

Such programmes would be warranted in view of SMEs' critical role in employment and in poverty alleviation.

As part of its poverty reduction campaign, the department has taken steps to make the work of women in the mines more visible and less constraining.

During the seventh SAARC Summit, which was held in Dhaka in April this year, we adopted some specific programmes for poverty alleviation.

Human trafficking is deeply linked to poverty.

The whole nation is waging a war against poverty.

Combating poverty requires action on many fronts.

And the problem of poverty is not like that.

The World Bank insisted that corruption be seen as a cancer, and that fighting it be made synonymous with fighting poverty.

Haiti had recently been hit by political crises and devastating natural catastrophes and had therefore been unable to implement its poverty reduction strategy.

Poverty reduction programmes are now focusing on women's associations for promoting income generating activities.

Income problems among the households of hired workers have been subject to the normal provisions for poverty alleviation, in the same way as other employees.

Later, I joined the World Bank, which sought to fight such poverty by transferring aid from rich to poor countries.

The need to encourage a linkage between the NAPs and the poverty alleviation strategies (as defined in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs)) is frequently mentioned in the reports.

Now the same health systems and strong immunization services can act as a platform to help fight poverty, too.

There is an acknowledged need to promote close links between the NAPs and the strategies for combating poverty, which currently determine the structure of development efforts.

example, the reform of economic instruments is identified as an area of environmental action in the Georgian Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (from 2000).

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It was also necessary to underscore the importance of the meeting of world leaders convened by the Presidents of Brazil, Chile, France and Spain on innovative mechanisms for funding the fight against hunger and poverty.

That is why, the Paraguayan Government is striving to fight poverty.

During the second international White Band Day on September 10, 2005, the tower was completely unlit except for the Main Observatory, which was lit with a bright white light.

The preferred priority areas take account of the concerns of African countries insofar as these constitute a cross cutting dimension of development cooperation strategies and poverty reduction policies.