Sentences with phrase «direct effects of poverty»

Regarding cognitive ability, early - life and prolonged exposure to poverty have been found to be particularly detrimental.30, 35,36 The literature points to a multitude of ways in which the parents» financial situation affects children's cognitive ability.35, 37 These include the more direct effects of poverty, such as poor diet, poor housing conditions, poor neighbourhood environment and inferior access to goods and activities that may stimulate cognitive development.

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In many developing countries, wages are much less, and as journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have noted in their widely - acclaimed book Half the Sky, the empowerment and employment of women can have a direct and profound effect in curbing poverty, infant mortality, maternal mortality, and violence.

The media has been reporting extensively on what the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance project has dubbed the «Trump Effect»: the fear and anxiety which the President - elect's campaign rhetoric - and his policy pronouncements, especially regarding immigrants and Muslims - appears to be engendering among Latino, Hispanic, African - American, and Muslim children, immigrant children, and children of immigrants, and the bullying, intimidation, slurs, and threats which appear to be increasingly directed at them.

Abuja — As a way of cushioning the effect of poverty and hunger in the land, President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday directed the Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh to release 10,000 tons of grains from the national strategic grains reserves for national distribution.http: / / ghanapoliticsonline.com

The authors conclude that poverty has a direct negative effect on cognition, which tends to perpetuate the cycle of poverty.

«Policies should be directed to making large cities more livable» — for instance, enacting legislation or spending money to alleviate poverty and crime, the negative effects of growth.

These studies showing the direct positive effects of raising household income — even by small amounts — on student achievement make it plain that reducing poverty through stable, living wage jobs for all working families would also help improve educational outcomes.

Although we did not find a direct connection between school composition and math achievement, we did find an indirect effect of attending a high - poverty or high - minority school on dropping out of high school.

Further, to the extent that the biggest advantage of socioeconomic integration may be direct peer effects (Reid, 2012)-- picking up knowledge and habits from high - achieving, highly motivated peers — high - poverty schools will always be at a disadvantage, given the strong relationship between students» own socioeconomic statuses and their academic performance.

Wealth has indeed the monopoly of justice against poverty and such monopoly it is the direct tendency and necessary effect of regulations like these to strengthen and confirm.

Parental mental illness Relatively little has been written about the effect of serious and persistent parental mental illness on child abuse, although many studies show that substantial proportions of mentally ill mothers are living away from their children.14 Much of the discussion about the effect of maternal mental illness on child abuse focuses on the poverty and homeless - ness of mothers who are mentally ill, as well as on the behavior problems of their children — all issues that are correlated with involvement with child welfare services.15 Jennifer Culhane and her colleagues followed a five - year birth cohort among women who had ever been homeless and found an elevated rate of involvement with child welfare services and a nearly seven - times - higher rate of having children placed into foster care.16 More direct evidence on the relationship between maternal mental illness and child abuse in the general population, however, is strikingly scarce, especially given the 23 percent rate of self - reported major depression in the previous twelve months among mothers involved with child welfare services, as shown in NSCAW.17