Sentences with phrase «for urban poverty»

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Pitch: «Orora Global is a for - profit social enterprise with a simple mission to end energy poverty: to provide access to affordable, reliable, and clean energy solutions to rural households and urban slums in developing countries.

«What Ramsey and Pam [Khalidi's wife] are doing is not only a model for historic preservation but also for urban renewal and poverty reduction,» says Albert George, founder of the Georgia Green Economy Summit, which honored Khalidi at a recent event.

We believe that through this work, we can transform the lives of children living in urban poverty today and improve the future for every generation.

ACC Accounting & Auditing, AFR Africa, AGE Economics of Ageing, AGR Agricultural Economics, ARA Arab World, BAN Banking, BEC Business Economics, CBA Central Banking, CBE Cognitive & Behavioural Economics, CDM Collective Decision - Making, CFN Corporate Finance, CIS Confederation of Independent States, CMP Computational Economics, CNA China, COM Industrial Competition, CSE Economics of Strategic Management, CTA Contract Theory & Applications, CUL Cultural Economics, CWA Central & Western Asia, DCM Discrete Choice Models, DEM Demographic Economics, DEV Development, DGE Dynamic General Equilibrium, ECM Econometrics, EDU Education, EEC European Economics, EFF Efficiency & Productivity, ENE Energy Economics, ENT Entrepreneurship, ENV Environmental Economics, ETS Econometric Time Series, EUR Microeconomics European Issues, EVO Evolutionary Economics, EXP Experimental Economics, FDG Financial Development & Growth, FIN Finance, FMK Financial Markets, FOR Forecasting, GEO Economic Geography, GRO Economic Growth, GTH Game Theory, HAP Economics of Happiness, HEA Health Economics, HIS Business, Economic & Financial History, HME Heterodox Microeconomics, HPE History & Philosophy of Economics, HRM Human Capital & Human Resource Management, IAS Insurance Economics, ICT Information & Communication Technologies, IFN International Finance, IND Industrial Organization, INO Innovation, INT International Trade, IPR Intellectual Property Rights, IUE Informal & Underground Economics, KNM Knowledge Management & Knowledge Economy, LAB Labour Economics, LAM Central & South America, LAW Law & Economics, LMA Labor Markets - Supply, Demand & Wages, LTV Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty, MAC Macroeconomics, MFD Microfinance, MIC Microeconomics, MIG Economics of Human Migration, MKT Marketing, MON Monetary Economics, MST Market Microstructure, NET Network Economics, NEU Neuroeconomics, OPM Open Macroeconomics, ORE Operations Research, PBE Public Economics, PKE Post Keynesian Economics, POL Positive Political Economics, PPM Project, Program & Portfolio Management, PUB Public Finance, REG Regulation, RES Resource Economics, RMG Risk Management, SBM Small Business Management, SEA South East Asia, SOC Social Norms & Social Capital, SOG Sociology of Economics, SPO Sports & Economics, TID Technology & Industrial Dynamics, TRA Transition Economics, TRE Transport Economics, TUR Tourism Economics, UPT Utility Models & Prospect Theory, URE Urban & Real Estate Economics.

ACC Accounting & Auditing, AFR Africa, AGE Economics of Ageing, AGR Agricultural Economics, ARA Arab World, BAN Banking, BEC Business Economics, CBA Central Banking, CBE Cognitive & Behavioural Economics, CDM Collective Decision - Making, CFN Corporate Finance, CIS Confederation of Independent States, CMP Computational Economics, CNA China, COM Industrial Competition, CSE Economics of Strategic Management, CTA Contract Theory & Applications, CUL Cultural Economics, CWA Central & Western Asia, DCM Discrete Choice Models, DEM Demographic Economics, DEV Development, DGE Dynamic General Equilibrium, ECM Econometrics, EDU Education, EEC European Economics, EFF Efficiency & Productivity, ENE Energy Economics, ENT Entrepreneurship, ENV Environmental Economics, ETS Econometric Time Series, EUR Microeconomic European Issues, EVO Evolutionary Economics, EXP Experimental Economics, FDG Financial Development & Growth, FIN Finance, FMK Financial Markets, FOR Forecasting, GEO Economic Geography, GRO Economic Growth, GTH Game Theory, HAP Economics of Happiness, HEA Health Economics, HIS Business, Economic & Financial History, HME Heterodox Microeconomics, HPE History & Philosophy of Economics, HRM Human Capital & Human Resource Management, IAS Insurance Economics, ICT Information & Communication Technologies, IFN International Finance, IND Industrial Organization, INO Innovation, INT International Trade, IPR Intellectual Property Rights, IUE Informal & Underground Economics, KNM Knowledge Management & Knowledge Economy, LAB Labour Economics, LAM Central & South America, LAW Law & Economics, LMA Labor Markets - Supply, Demand & Wages, LTV Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty, MAC Macroeconomics, MFD Microfinance, MIC Microeconomics, MIG Economics of Human Migration, MKT Marketing, MON Monetary Economics, MST Market Microstructure, NET Network Economics, NEU Neuroeconomics, OPM Open Macroeconomics, PBE Public Economics, PKE Post Keynesian Economics, POL Positive Political Economics, PPM Project, Program & Portfolio Management, PUB Public Finance, REG Regulation, RES Resource Economics, RMG Risk Management, SBM Small Business Management, SEA South East Asia, SOC Social Norms & Social Capital, SOG Sociology of Economics, SPO Sports & Economics, TID Technology & Industrial Dynamics, TRA Transition Economics, TRE Transport Economics, TUR Tourism Economics, UPT Utility Models & Prospect Theory, URE Urban & Real Estate Economics.

For instance, the steady destruction of our natural forests, pasture lands and inland coastal water bodies has not only meant increased economic poverty for millions of tribals, nomads and traditional fisherfolk, but also a slow cultural and social death: a dismal change from rugged self - sufficient human beings to abjectly dependent landless laborers and squalor - stricken urban migranFor instance, the steady destruction of our natural forests, pasture lands and inland coastal water bodies has not only meant increased economic poverty for millions of tribals, nomads and traditional fisherfolk, but also a slow cultural and social death: a dismal change from rugged self - sufficient human beings to abjectly dependent landless laborers and squalor - stricken urban migranfor millions of tribals, nomads and traditional fisherfolk, but also a slow cultural and social death: a dismal change from rugged self - sufficient human beings to abjectly dependent landless laborers and squalor - stricken urban migrants.

It is not surprising that the slums in our cities, where there is an intense struggle for basic necessities, have become scenes of violent conflict, M.N. Srinivas, the eminent sociologist, observes «The richest soil for communal frenzy to build on is poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and slum — like conditions — all of which are m plenty in urban India» (India Today, January 16 - 31, 1993).

For the growing churches of the South, the Bible speaks to everyday issues of poverty and debt, famine and urban crisis, racial and gender oppression, state brutality and persecution.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

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As the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome said, fuel poverty occurs across the country, in urban areas as well as rural, and affects the young, the old, single people and families.

Committee Chair Rev. Kinzer Pointer and other committee members are joining us here this afternoon, and I thank them for the work the Committee is doing in urban, suburban and rural settings to fully engage individuals in poverty or at - risk of being in poverty.

As the high - tech industry takes off in the Capital Region's suburbs, the area's Regional Economic Development Council is focusing in part on something different as it readies for a $ 1.5 billion upstate revitalization sweepstakes: urban poverty and inequality.

Also part of the Lagos State team are the Commissioners for Special Duties and Intergovernmental Relations, Mr Seye Oladejo; Housing, Prince Gbolahan Lawal; Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Hon Lola Akande; Special Adviser on Tourism and Culture, Hon Adebimpe Akinsola; Special Adviser on Urban Development, Mrs Yewande Onabule and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Works, Engineer Olujimi Hotonu.

But some education specialists say that elected school boards in general pose problems for urban school districts with challenges related to poverty.

The Poverty Committee is comrpised of Rev. Kinzer M. Pointer (Committee Chair) of Agape Fellowship Baptist Church; Frank Cerny, PhD., Executive Director of the Rural Outreach Center; Anna Falicov, Esq., City of Buffalo; Dr. Myron Glick of the Jericho Road Community Health Center; Yvonne S. Minor - Ragan, PhD., YMRagan Consulting, LLC; Dr. Henry Louis Taylor, PhD., Center for Urban Studies at the University at Buffalo; and Marlies A. Wesolowski, Executive Director of the Lt. Col. Matt Urban Human Services Center.

SYEP was administered through Buffalo Urban League and provided services for 724 participating youths across Erie County, 563 of whom were categorized as having family incomes under 125 percent of the Federal Poverty Level.

The Bronx, which has long fought its image of a borough besotted by arson, poverty and urban decay, is now a hot commodity among the same investors and developers who overlooked it for years.

After adjusting their findings to account for differences in race and ethnicity, sex, age, poverty level, education and urban density of the children's neighborhoods, Keet and her team found that for each microgram / cubic meter increase in coarse particulate matter, asthma diagnosis increased by 0.6 percent, emergency room visits for asthma by 1.7 percent and hospitalizations for asthma by 2.3 percent.

The researchers adjusted their findings for race and ethnicity, sex, age, poverty, education and how urban the neighborhood the children lived in was.

«There isn't a lot of granular information on poverty and slums in the cities we're working in,» says Brian English, country director of slum upgrading, urbanization and climate change initiatives in India for CHF, which was founded in 1952 as the Foundation for Cooperative Housing to provide affordable homes for low - income families in rural and urban America.

CHF's poverty map for Sekondi — Takoradi, the country's third - largest urban area, takes into account access to housing; room and housing density levels; solid - waste services; sanitation and water; and income, says Ishmael Adams, acting country director for CHF in Ghana.

Poverty atlases that map the extent of privation have existed for decades as a means to alert urban leaders to areas lacking basic services, such as water, electricity and sanitation.

According to Wilson, Darwin told his contemporaries «that their land - grabs in Africa, their hunger for stock - market wealth in the face of widespread urban poverty, their rigid class system and their everlasting wars were not things to be ashamed of, but actually part of the processes of nature».

Shot for a song in the rougher parts of St. Louis (doubling for the Big Apple) with simple but bold model work (some of it created by James Cameron in his Roger Corman days) and striking computer graphics, it's a hoot, yet behind the colorful personalities of the prison yard gang is a sardonic crack about the state of modern urban America lost to poverty, runaway crime, and gangs that rule the inner city.

Philanthropies like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Broad Foundation, after giving to urban education for years, have realized that the charter sector disproportionately produces high - performing high - poverty schools.

For a decade or more, school reform has been an urban tale of superintendents seeking to «turn around» schools in poverty - stricken communities, where vast numbers of children read below grade level and drop out before graduation.

By 2005 Pisces was the biggest single supporter of Teach for America, a nonprofit that has, improbably, made teaching in poverty - ridden urban schools one of the most popular career choices of students at Ivy League colleges.

with University of Pittsburgh Professor H. Richard Milner IV, Helen Faison Endowed Chair of Urban Education and director of the Center for Urban Education; editor of Urban Education; and author of Rac (e) ing to Class: Confronting Poverty and Race in Schools and Classrooms.

We also examine results separately for families with incomes below the poverty line (i.e., the poorest 19 percent of families), as compared to those at or above the poverty line, and families who live in rural areas (17 percent of all families), as compared to those in more urban areas.

Almost half of the teachers in Ohio's charter schools quit their schools in the four - year period between 2000 and 2004, in comparison with about 8 percent in conventional public schools and 12 percent in high - poverty, urban public schools, suggesting that new organizations are not a magic formula for school stability.

As part of his campaign plan for lifting children out of poverty, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley recently proposed spending more on child care and early - childhood education, guaranteeing health care for all children, and creating a new program to recruit teachers for urban and rural districts.

It is part of a series in which Urban Institute scholars will offer evidence - based ideas for reducing poverty and increasing opportunity.

African American students, students who qualify for free / reduced lunch (i.e. poor students), students living in relatively high - poverty areas, and students attending urban schools are all more likely to be investigated by Child Protective Services for suspected child maltreatment.

The project, which he calls, The Chastened Dream, will look at how publicly - oriented professional schools, including those focused on education, public health, public policy, and urban planning and design, develop knowledge that they hope will be useful for ameliorating poverty, curing disease, improving education, and increasing the quality of life for us all.

Probably the most convincing argument for the fundamental difference between start - ups and turnarounds comes from those actually running high - performing high - poverty urban schools (see sidebar).

Mark Martin: Build UP stands for Build Urban Prosperity, a comprehensive, multi-sector solution to issues affecting the economically disadvantaged, such as poverty and urban blUrban Prosperity, a comprehensive, multi-sector solution to issues affecting the economically disadvantaged, such as poverty and urban blurban blight.

Diane Ravitch has been hitting the poverty gong for some time, most recently in Cleveland, where, she says, «the level of urban decay is alarming.»

Gold notes, for example, how the demand that urban schools intervene directly to overcome the effects of poverty on achievement results in a proliferation of site - based social - service programs — clinics, counseling, rehab centers, family interventions — whose maintenance can overwhelm the instructional mission of the school.

Working with the Center for Urban Pedagogy, they turned their inquiry into a compelling documentary, Bodega Down Bronx, that sparks community discussions about nutrition, poverty, health, and food systems.

The expectation is that the resulting intervention, titled «SECURe for Parents and Children (SECURe PAC)» is feasible to implement within existing school - and community - based services in urban areas with a high concentration of families and children living in poverty.

A high - poverty urban district with 28 percent English language learners and more than 50 home languages spoken throughout the district, Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) in California was looking for new ways to reach these diverse families.

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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.

For a high - poverty urban district like LAUSD, where declining birth rates, reduced immigration, gentrification and the expansion of charters have left neighborhood schools scrambling for resources, education researchers believe that community schooling offers the first meaningful bang for its buck in delivering equity for its highest - needs studenFor a high - poverty urban district like LAUSD, where declining birth rates, reduced immigration, gentrification and the expansion of charters have left neighborhood schools scrambling for resources, education researchers believe that community schooling offers the first meaningful bang for its buck in delivering equity for its highest - needs studenfor resources, education researchers believe that community schooling offers the first meaningful bang for its buck in delivering equity for its highest - needs studenfor its buck in delivering equity for its highest - needs studenfor its highest - needs students.

Inspired by their passion for children and by a shared desire to improve the lives of children living in urban poverty, Michael and Susan Dell established their Austin, Texas - based foundation in 1999.

And although charters enroll only 5 percent of America's K - 12 students, to the cash - strapped, high - poverty urban districts that have been targeted for charter expansions, that number represents a shift of roughly $ 38.7 billion per year in lost tax dollars and mass closings of neighborhood schools.

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Perhaps even more common (particularly for White teachers in poorer, often urban areas) is treating our students as inspiration or poverty porn when talking to other White people.

A report released Monday by the Urban Institute has adjusted the raw scores for each state to account for student demographics, including poverty, race, native language and the share of students in special education.