Sentences with phrase «as endemic poverty»

Africa's major economic sectors are vulnerable to current climate sensitivity, with huge economic impacts, and this vulnerability is exacerbated by existing developmental challenges such as endemic poverty, complex governance and institutional dimensions; limited access to capital, including markets, infrastructure and technology; ecosystem degradation; and complex disasters and conflicts.

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The great issues that face world society, such as the poverty and hunger of millions, the endemic violence, the drug trade, or the abuse of the environment — to name only a selection of key concerns — all have a spiritual and moral dimension.

Beginning in his early childhood, the story charts his coming of age into manhood, as his mother and father fight to keep him on the straight and narrow path as drugs, violence and endemic poverty plague his community.