Sentences with phrase «from rural poverty»

The negative effects are so great that they justify the investment of trillions of dollars and / or the diversion and disruption of industry, farming, transportation and commerce that gives us the quality of life we enjoy and that is elevating people like the Chinese from rural poverty.

Daniel, who's risen from rural poverty to a wealthy but soulless and troubled London existence, finds himself still obsessed with the three sisters and haunted by the summer of 1967.

Not exact matches

The majority of the guests of our federal prisons come from the small minority (which is higher outside the cities, in rural Canada and among First Nations) who live in poverty.

This morning, having just returned again from Uganda and dealing with the rural poverty and lack of clean water, I drove past the dumb sign again and found myself wishing it was a Coca - Cola sign also!

«And I call for the private sector to step up and to embrace the opportunity to work with governments in forested countries to produce raw materials in a way that tackles rural poverty while reducing emissions from deforestation.»

Not only did Honduras suffer the highest deforestation rate in the Western hemisphere from 2005 to 2010, it has the worst income disparity in all of Latin America, with one in five rural people living in extreme poverty.

The November set purchases its African bird's eye chili peppers from Asante Mama, a Ugandan farming business that helps rural women overcome poverty.

Rural poverty is different from urban poverty: I have friends who struggle to find their monthly rent but who distrust welfare so much that they augment the food they grow with poaching and road kill just to help make ends meet.

Missing from the Campbell Conversations recent series on poverty was a discussion focused on rural poverty.

The rural nature of much of the Welsh housing stock means not only that many of the properties are hard to treat but also that they are excluded from programmes aimed at disadvantaged communities because poverty tends to be dispersed in rural communities.

In an Open Access article published in the Journal of Cognition and Development titled «Working Memory Differences Between Children Living in Rural and Urban Poverty,» author Michele Tine investigated whether working memory of children living in rural poverty is distinct from the working memory profiles of children in urban povRural and Urban Poverty,» author Michele Tine investigated whether working memory of children living in rural poverty is distinct from the working memory profiles of children in urban pPoverty,» author Michele Tine investigated whether working memory of children living in rural poverty is distinct from the working memory profiles of children in urban povrural poverty is distinct from the working memory profiles of children in urban ppoverty is distinct from the working memory profiles of children in urban povertypoverty.

As a result of the large - scale actions aimed at alleviation of poverty, the size of poor populations in rural areas of China decreased from 250 million in 1978 to 82 · 49 million in 2010.

Given the title «looper,» young Joe (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) arrives in a rural field outside of the poverty - stricken city every day and waits for his victims to appear, executing them with a quick shot from his enormous gun (referred to here as his «blunderbuss») and tossing them into an incinerator.

Born into rural poverty and servitude, Gaines manages, through diligent work and an ingratiating manner towards white folk, to move from a small - town inn to a high - class hotel in Washington, DC, where he comes to the notice of a White House staff recruiter.

Students from rural areas and high - poverty schools, as well as minority students, typically show gains that are two to three times larger than those of the total sample.

The critical - thinking gap between field trip students from rural and high - poverty schools and similar students who didn't go on the trip was significantly larger than the gap between affluent students who went and affluent students who didn't go.

Benefits are particularly large for students from rural areas and from high - poverty schools.

«Incentives to work in low - performing schools are not the sole answer — too often, it's large class sizes, poor working conditions, and a lack of support from administrators that drives teachers away from high - poverty rural and inner - city schools,» she said.

It has also meant making links between formal and informal sectors, urban and rural livelihoods, coastal and forest livelihoods, private and public interventions, social conflicts, economic thinking, agriculture, fisheries, environment, poverty alleviation, and subjective and objective wellbeing analyses in order to approach things from a humanitarian and educative and inclusive dimension that will be relevant to my immediate contexts which is Africa and the rest of the world.

I've taught in three states from urban to rural settings, and from deep poverty to an area of high affluence.

The largely poor and rural state of Mississippi suffers from the highest rate of childhood poverty in the country, along with some of the lowest scores on standardized tests.

Mathematica worked across six different high - poverty areas (ranging from the rural Mississippi Delta to urban Chicago) to randomly assign almost 2,000 students to 100 TFA and non-TFA classrooms.

Schools in the study ranged from 28 - 92 % poverty, and included four rural, four small town, and one suburban school, as well as five inner - city schools from three large metropolitan districts.

If you're working with a regional or national partner, how does your students» feedback compare to feedback from other students in a comparable group — like state or national benchmarks, or other schools with similar characteristics such as rural or high - poverty schools?

Teaching students from diverse settings or with specialized needs (urban, rural, ELL, high - poverty, students w / disabilities).

«Out of the Loop,» a new report from the National School Boards Association's (NSBA), Center for Public Education (CPE), finds that poverty, isolation and inequities are exacerbated for rural students by the lack of attention to the unique needs of this considerable student population.

Colleges Discover the Rural Student Students from rural areas, where residents are more likely to live in poverty and have lower education levels than those labeled urban, suburban or town, only make up less than 30 percent of college students nationRural Student Students from rural areas, where residents are more likely to live in poverty and have lower education levels than those labeled urban, suburban or town, only make up less than 30 percent of college students nationrural areas, where residents are more likely to live in poverty and have lower education levels than those labeled urban, suburban or town, only make up less than 30 percent of college students nationwide.

From the nefarious achievement gaps, to the racial isolation in our increasingly segregated schools; from the digital divide that results in kids not having access to computers, to the poverty gulf that results in kids not having homes; from boys» reading difficulties and girls» problems with math, to the disparities among rural, suburban, and urban school needs — these gaps present baffling problFrom the nefarious achievement gaps, to the racial isolation in our increasingly segregated schools; from the digital divide that results in kids not having access to computers, to the poverty gulf that results in kids not having homes; from boys» reading difficulties and girls» problems with math, to the disparities among rural, suburban, and urban school needs — these gaps present baffling problfrom the digital divide that results in kids not having access to computers, to the poverty gulf that results in kids not having homes; from boys» reading difficulties and girls» problems with math, to the disparities among rural, suburban, and urban school needs — these gaps present baffling problfrom boys» reading difficulties and girls» problems with math, to the disparities among rural, suburban, and urban school needs — these gaps present baffling problems.

Key examples include Cawelti and Protheroe's (2001) study of change in six school districts in four states; Snipes, Dolittle and Herlihy's (2002) case studies of improvement in four urban school systems and states; Massell and Goertz's (2002) investigation of standards - based reform in 23 school districts across eight states; McLaughlin and Talbert's (2002) analysis of three urban or metropolitan area California districts; Togneri and Anderson's (2003) investigation of five high poverty districts (four urban, one rural) from five states; and several single - site case studies of district success (e.g., Hightower, 2002; Snyder, 2002).

Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption.

Shahidur Khandker, Zaid Bakht and Gayatri Koolwal «The Poverty Impact of Rural Roads: Evidence from Bangladesh» World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3875, April 2006

Often lacking diverse economic systems, several rural Eastern European communities suffer major poverty and loss as a result of lost logistics contracts from major global industries.

Virginia Overton's two - piece show consists of the most suspect - looking hot tub since «Hot Tub Time Machine» — a tired drip coffee maker ineffectually filling a shabby bathtub — and the year's most transporting and best - smelling installation to date: A wall covered with odorous and richly colorful planks of cedar sourced from her family's Tennessee farm that, taken with the tub, makes for a romantic DIY portrayal of rural poverty in prime Chelsea.

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The RUAF network was initiated in response to the needs identified by a group of representatives from 28 international organisations, including UNDP, FAO, IDRC, GTZ and CIRAD, that met in Ottawa (Canada) in 1994 and recognised the need to address the increasing «urbanisation of poverty» and growing urban food insecurity related to urban - rural migration, lack of formal employment, rising food prices, growing dependence on food imports, increasing dominance of supermarkets and fast food chains, and challenges posed by climate change.

Rural poverty in parts of Asia could be exacerbated due to negative impacts from climate change on rice production, and a general increase in food prices and the cost of living [high confidence].

This manual roots for natural resources as the foundation from which rural poor people can overcome poverty.

Human migration resulting from drought, environmental degradation and economic reasons may spread disease in unexpected ways, and new breeding sites for vectors may arise due to increasing poverty in urban areas and deforestation and environmental degradation in rural areas (Sims and Reid, 2006).

A Senate Committee had just released an interim report on rural poverty and, in my capacity as a rural Realtor, I couldn't wait to get my hands on the real thing, because the column featured commentary from such luminaries on - all - things - rural as Senator Hugh Segal, and National Anti-Poverty Organization President Debbie Frost; so I just knew that the final result was guaranteed to be seriously entertaining, something along the lines of «Debbie and Hugh do Dundas County», coming soon to a township near you!