Sentences with phrase «alleviate poverty by»

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.

Moynihan, a New Deal liberal, believed in alleviating poverty by channeling public money directly to the poor.

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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.

That's according to a research compiled by Oxfam, an international network of organizations collectively working to alleviate global poverty.

The ONE campaign, an advocacy group co-founded by the rock star Bono to help alleviate poverty and fight AIDS in Africa, hoped the metaphor would carry on to their project to get people more involved in AIDS advocacy.

One approach to youth ministry is evident in an antihunger effort by a Christian organization dedicated to alleviating hunger and poverty in economically distressed areas of the world.

Initially, the bank's program for alleviating global poverty was dominated by a strategy of economic growth, measured primarily in terms of GDP and channeled largely through big projects aimed at infrastructure development that benefited the rich more than the poor.

Moynihan's thinking on this was influenced by his own experiences of deprivation and the Catholic doctrine of subsidiarity which led him to put particular stress on the importance of families in alleviating poverty.

But, save one notable exception, the policy prescriptions made by the bishops are either accepted uncritically or criticized for not going far enough in suggesting redistributive plans for alleviating poverty (at least two contributors explicitly advocate a socialist economy).

As passionate as I was about social justice and alleviating poverty, child sponsorship struck me as an old - fashioned model for giving in which a few select children essentially walked through a breadline to receive meals, schools supplies, and medical attention from far - away white «saviors» whose first - world guilt was eased by letters ensuring that their contributions made a difference.

Fair Trade (generically and as trademarked by various organizations) is primarily concerned with alleviating poverty through greater equity in international trade.

Publishing «The Case for Family Allowances» in 1940, she argued that the poverty experienced by women and children could be substantially alleviated by a cash payment directly to the mother.

So poverty is not something to be pitied or alleviated, but condemned as sin and the notion that poverty is a result of inequality or greed and needs to be addressed by the state is not something that sits well with the Protestant work ethic.

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).

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization works to alleviate poverty and hunger by promoting agricultural development, improved nutrition, and food security.

It destroys the rain forest habitat, fails to alleviate poverty, and contributes to global warming by eliminating trees that would absorb and store carbon dioxide.

The lawsuit, filed by the nonprofit Public Interest Law Office of Rochester in September 1998, claims that the state has deprived the plaintiffs — all low - income black and Hispanic students — of their rights under the state constitution to a sound basic education by failing to alleviate concentrations of poverty in the 37,000 - student Rochester school district.

For example, in Jennings, Missouri, Superintendent Tiffany Anderson successfully turned around a racially isolated, high poverty district by adopting a holistic approach that «[used] the tools of the school district to alleviate the barriers poverty creates.»

Community schools can help alleviate those barriers created by poverty and empower the student to focus on learning.

The Portland Animal Welfare (PAW) Team saves lives, alleviates suffering, and keeps pets and people together by providing free veterinary care to the pets of people who are experiencing homelessness or extreme poverty.

Dr. King's beliefs were founded on the principles of nonviolence and the empowerment of communities by alleviating poverty.

Addressing energy poverty is a key step to alleviating poverty — with the I.E.A. noting that an additional 700 million people need to gain access to modern energy services by 2015 if the UN's millennium development poverty alleviation goal is to be met (halving world poverty).

Through these tours people have the chance to see firsthand all our production process and learn that they can help prevent deforestation, curb climate change, protect wildlife, alleviate poverty and transform business practices by being Smart Sustainable Shoppers.

This doesn't mean our city can't lead the rest of the country by implementing climate solutions at the local level which protect our health and alleviate poverty.

Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) empowers individuals and organizations to fight both climate change and global poverty by connecting their carbon emissions with certified forestry projects in least - developed countries which create life - changing income for smallholder farmers who live on less than $ 2 pPoverty (COTAP) empowers individuals and organizations to fight both climate change and global poverty by connecting their carbon emissions with certified forestry projects in least - developed countries which create life - changing income for smallholder farmers who live on less than $ 2 ppoverty by connecting their carbon emissions with certified forestry projects in least - developed countries which create life - changing income for smallholder farmers who live on less than $ 2 per day.

Furthermore, these models fail to account for how reliable, affordable energy from traditional sources benefit people — by extending lives, fighting disease, reducing hunger, and alleviating poverty.

By people who do not understand the role of the businessman (not the government, UN, or anyone else) in alleviating poverty and human suffering?

About Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) Launched in 2011, Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) empowers individuals and organizations to address both climate change and global poverty by connecting their carbon emissions with accredited carbon projects which create life - changing income streams for the world's poorest Poverty (COTAP) Launched in 2011, Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) empowers individuals and organizations to address both climate change and global poverty by connecting their carbon emissions with accredited carbon projects which create life - changing income streams for the world's poorest Poverty (COTAP) empowers individuals and organizations to address both climate change and global poverty by connecting their carbon emissions with accredited carbon projects which create life - changing income streams for the world's poorest poverty by connecting their carbon emissions with accredited carbon projects which create life - changing income streams for the world's poorest people.

We are partnering with Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP.org) to empower individuals to address both climate change and global poverty by connecting their unavoidable carbon footprints with accredited forestry projects in least developed countries, which create wages for the world's poorest Poverty (COTAP.org) to empower individuals to address both climate change and global poverty by connecting their unavoidable carbon footprints with accredited forestry projects in least developed countries, which create wages for the world's poorest poverty by connecting their unavoidable carbon footprints with accredited forestry projects in least developed countries, which create wages for the world's poorest people.

Therefore, international climate talks, which are inherently energy talks, are by proxy humanitarian relief opportunities to engage the global community in energy - based efforts to alleviate poverty.

Simply put by Silas Siakor, «Palm oil seems to be compounding, not alleviating poverty.»

In addition, the investments would alleviate global poverty and keep stagnating economies humming, while cutting humanity's global ecological footprint nearly in half by 2050 even in the face of rising populations.

The World Bank has made a «fundamental shift» in its role of alleviating global poverty, by refocusing its financing efforts towards tackling climate change, the group said on Thursday.

It highlights that it could revitalise the agriculture sector, foster rural development and alleviate poverty, not least by improving rural access to sustainable energy.

Child support is about alleviating child poverty and ensuring that both parents maintain their children; and as far as child maintenance is concerned it is about — or it should be about — ensuring prompt payment of support by a non-resident parent.

They are arguing that the Act violates Section 2 of theCharter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees freedom of expression and freedom of association, and in their case, by restricting how its members can collectively press politicians and others for changes to laws and policies to alleviate poverty.

Interventions must be targeted at alleviating maternal depressive symptoms by decreasing poverty, providing support programs for single parents, and establishing accessible and affordable medical care for all parents and their children.