Sentences with phrase «at alleviating poverty»

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.

And — most importantly — it is extremely effective at alleviating poverty among seniors.

These calls for rethinking of the various approaches aimed at alleviating poverty and probably start targeting poverty, thereby looking more at the questions of the opportunities available to those living in fragile states or conflict affected countries.

Not exact matches

He is at least doing something to alleviate others» poverty.

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.

It is unclear that other socioeconomic arrangements do a better job at reducing alienation, curbing corruption, and promoting virtue than do markets, and yet, markets alleviate material poverty better than any other system of which we are aware.

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).

Claire said: «It has never been more important to focus on alleviating fuel poverty in the UK and I am delighted to be joining Warm Zones at such a crucial time.

Glover is on the advisory board at Food Tank, a nonprofit committed to environmental, social and economic ways to sustainably alleviate hunger, obesity and poverty.

Looking at child poverty and strategies employed to alleviate it, including raising aspirations.

Cover directs the Urban Revitalization Program at Seton Hall University's Center for Social Justice, teaching law students how to alleviate poverty through the legal system.

First and foremost, you should check out Paul Tough's NYT Sunday Magazine look at Roseland and at young Barack Obama's notion that he could do more to alleviate poverty as a politician than as a community organizer — which at least so far hasn't happened.

At the end of CowParade, the majority of the Edinburgh herd will go to market — a Gala Auction, with 75 per cent of the net proceeds from the auction going to the following charities: OneCity Trust, tackling social exclusion through a range of community projects, and VETAID, working to alleviate poverty through sustainable farming in developing countries.

It was painted at a time of great turbulence and poverty, which Turner's patron George Wyndham and his associates did much to alleviate.

Along with alleviating energy poverty, a prime challenge at this moment should be alleviating «information poverty.»

We've got a spoken rule around the TreeHugger virtual office that we don't write «save the planet» as it's simplistic cliché, but breaking that rule somehow seems appropriate at this moment: According to a new report from the UNEP investing just 2 % of global GDP could both alleviate global poverty, set us solidly on the path away from fossil fuels, and cut our collective ecological footprint nearly in half.

The statistics point to the astonishing wealth and advantages Americans enjoy, and at the same time its failure to provide leadership to alleviate poverty and suffering.

And we know that clean energy is better at alleviating energy poverty than coal (pdf).

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.

«COTAP has a proven and longstanding commitment to poverty - alleviating carbon projects, they're very transparent and modest about their margins, and they place the tool of carbon offsets at the fingertips of individuals as a tax - deductible donation and in increments as small as 1 tonne.»

My point is that cheap, dense, dispatchable power is necessary to alleviate energy poverty, at this time that requires fossil fuel, and that should be the cornerstone of our energy policy.

The strategy focuses on rapid implementation at country level of high - impact, low - cost, scaleable (HILCS) energy interventions demonstrated to alleviate poverty.

Learn more about the company and its mission of alleviating poverty, and see its other products, at the WholeStory website.

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.