Part of the problem in helping
alleviate poverty in the area is the fact that fundraising is more difficult when the general population doesn't know «hidden homelessness» exists.
As well as reducing the burden of ill - health, they make for more resilient communities,
help alleviate poverty and address global inequality.
Some argue that since poverty is strongly related to achievement, we must
alleviate poverty before we can hope to have an effect of schools on achievement.
Also the conditional acceptance of fossil fuels as sometimes necessary to
alleviate poverty needs far better explanation.
The petitions are based on the false assumption that the mere creation of regions will accelerate development, improve governance and
alleviate poverty in the newly created regions.
The report examines the close links between environmental conditions, population trends, and prospects
for alleviating poverty in developing countries.
A lot of funds have been injected into CEDECOM by governments over the years with the aim of alleviation aim
of alleviating poverty in the Central Region.
Are you interested in becoming a social entrepreneur because you feel passionate about a certain issue or problem (such
as alleviating poverty, addressing illiteracy, access to healthcare, etc.)?
Moynihan, a New Deal liberal, believed in
alleviating poverty by channeling public money directly to the poor.
It is extremely effective at
alleviating poverty among low - income seniors because high income seniors, who tend to be better positioned for political advocacy, also get it.
Blockchain stands to
alleviate poverty while improving food security prospects for everyone, according to Elizabeth Leake of STEM - Trek.
«This coal loan is not
about alleviating poverty or supporting sustainable development and the World Bank has no business making it.
And there's little doubt that it's needed, according to a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: developing countries like China and India will burn their coal reserves to power industry and
alleviate poverty so developing cleaner ways to use it will be a global imperative.
Indeed, growing evidence suggests that a more globally integrated, market - based economic order, coupled with well - functioning democratic governments that effectively regulate the social and ecological impact of private behavior, can create a social order that will more
effectively alleviate poverty and protect the environment.
Fair Trade (generically and as trademarked by various organizations) is primarily concerned
with alleviating poverty through greater equity in international trade.
The government's plans to increase the sanctions on benefit recipients will do nothing to
alleviate poverty without the creation of more jobs with decent pay, the Public and Commercial Services union says.
The article's title was a nod to Jonathan Swift's 1729 satirical essay, «A Modest Proposal,» which mocked harsh British policies in Ireland by suggesting that the
Irish alleviate their poverty by selling their children as meat to the English gentry.
The United Nations has attempted to fill this gap by securing a pledge from developed countries to halve the number of people without any form of sanitation — whether basic outdoor latrines or indoor toilets — by 2015 as part of its Millennium Development Goals (a series of goals for world development, ranging
from alleviating poverty to fighting diseases like AIDS).
It will do little good to
alleviate poverty if you can no longer harvest your crops or find drinkable water.
After all, the widespread use of income support
for alleviating poverty in families where a woman has had a child out of wedlock is relatively recent.
Instead it needs to be overhauled so that it not only meets its primary purpose
of alleviating poverty, but also goes further and strives to reduce inequality.
While it might seem like a hefty price to pay for a steak lunch, all the proceeds go to a worthy cause, GLIDE — a charitable organization focused
on alleviating poverty.
The main objective of CORIGAP is to improve food security and gender equity, and
alleviate poverty through optimizing productivity and sustainability of irrigated rice production systems.
I'm not trying to be a troll, its just that everything I've ever read has indicated that the provision of a living wage was only one thing considered in setting the wage, along with other effects and purposes such
as alleviating poverty and the effect on employers and the total number of jobs.
Kiva's mission is to
alleviate poverty by letting individuals lend as little as $ 25 to people seeking loans in the developing world.
First is the incorrect notion that the Fair Trade movement is
about alleviating poverty, rather than creating a viable alternative market that addresses global trade systems that are unfair to small producers (and providing the resources needed to empower these producers).
Unlike the Millennial Development Goals, which were largely aimed at
helping alleviate poverty in developing nations, the Sustainable Development Goals are planned to guide all member nations towards a more environmentally sustainable economy.
The fund being their share of the Disability Fund was to boost their economic activities and
alleviate poverty among the Disabled society.
He spends his time running an award - winning 10,000 student polytechnic University, heading up Vee Technologies — an Inc. 500 fastest - growing company that specializes in health care, research and development, and engineering design services — and putting his heart and soul into his nonprofit venture SonaYukti, which helps
alleviate poverty in his native India.
And while TOMS has given away more than 10 million shoes to children in need and widened its one - for - one model to include eyewear, the company has come under fire for providing aid but not helping to
alleviate poverty.
Q: Some have argued TOMS has failed to
alleviate poverty, in part, because shoemakers aren't getting the wages they deserve.
So ask yourself a question: If Walmart (or the Walton family) decided that it wanted to give, say, an extra hundred million dollars to help
alleviate poverty, would it be better, ethically, to use that money to give 2.2 million employees a raise (roughly $ 50 per year, each) or to give a few thousand additional workers minimum - wage jobs, instead?
Meanwhile, projects like earthquake - stricken Haiti — which earned the foundation the scorn of grassroots Haitian activists that accused the foundation of mismanaging millions that did little to
alleviate the poverty - stricken country's recovery — blemished the organization's reputation.
As the founder of Childs Capital LLC, a Wall Street firm that seeks to
alleviate poverty in developing nations by investing in private enterprise, her business trips take her around the world, from Africa to Latin America.