Sentences with phrase «alleviate poverty needs»

Also the conditional acceptance of fossil fuels as sometimes necessary to alleviate poverty needs far better explanation.

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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.

«As a city with one of the highest rates of concentrated poverty in the United States, we need to focus our efforts on projects that can alleviate the pernicious effects of poverty, creating meaningful jobs and improving the quality of life in our neighborhoods.»

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.

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.

The question that needs to be asked — and that needs to be asked every time someone writes a check to a charity or a government commits to a multimillion - dollar aid project — is, Will this actually work to alleviate poverty?

Practically we have interviewed a wide array of stakeholders with diverse backgrounds, needs and opinions towards transforming lives and alleviating poverty.

The area's tribal inhabitants depend on agriculture, hunting and collection of forest products for their livelihoods but additional sources of income are badly needed to alleviate their 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).

But this makes developing countries very nervous as they see the need to grow to alleviate poverty.

«A continued reliance on huge coal, nuclear, and hydro plants has done little to alleviate energy poverty, forcing the poor around the world to rely on kerosene for their meager energy needs,» says Harish Hande, founder of SELCO - India (http://selco-india.com/), and recent recipient of the prestigious Magsaysay award.

There is therefore need for innovative strategies and practices to alleviate poverty and ensure survival in the face of climate change.

In fact, all of the complexities and imperfections are exactly why COTAP is needed to connect individuals with the market - based, poverty - alleviating tool of forestry carbon credits.

«A continued reliance on huge coal, nuclear, and hydro plants has done little to alleviate energy poverty, forcing the poor around the world to rely on kerosene for their meager energy needs,» says Harish Hande, founder of SELCO - India, and recent recipient of the prestigious Magsaysay award.

CWP members and staff frequently identified changes that needed to be made to laws or policies in order to alleviate poverty and publicly promoted the adoption of a national anti-poverty strategy.