Sentences with phrase «in global poverty»

that is still fairly recent that documents the steady decline in global poverty (as well as the many problems with social justice, equality, and freedom.

This new move is deemed a «fundamental shift» in the global poverty alleviation program it pursues.

I know many people (on Slashdot even) have claimed that switching to a low carbon energy infrastructure would result in global poverty.

In real terms, this would mean a 12 per cent cut in global poverty.

The good news is that students in the United States can help — and get a real - world lesson in global poverty while they're at it.

Giving the UN credit for the fall in global poverty is a bit like an NHL goal judge claiming he won the Stanley Cup because he turned on the red light when the winning goal was scored.

Not exact matches

So Evans made it his mission to turn the short - term excitement around the Make Poverty History concerts into a longer - term movement, and founded the Global Poverty Project in 2008, which eventually became Global Citizen.

The African nation of Zambia, for instance, has only enough food available to provide its population with 1,870 calories on average, per day, according to a striking global map in the October issue of National Geographic — and in truth, in much of the world, such calorie counts offer an inflated view of what's actually accessible to most citizens, due to widespread poverty, civil unrest, natural disasters, corruption, government mismanagement, food - distribution failures, and other issues.

The Gateses point out that in a recent survey, only 1 % of respondents knew that global poverty has been cut in half since 1990.

But while the entire MDG process has been basking in the glow of the poverty - reduction results — and talking of eliminating poverty altogether — none of this progress is properly attributable to UN efforts in particular, or the global governance movement in general.

We have two verticals - clothing and stationery - since the two global constants in charity are poverty, who will require clothing, and education, who will require stationary.

Secondly, he noted «the root causes of the global crisis have not been prop ¬ erly tackled» with the financial system remaining «the Achilles heel of the world economy» and thirdly, «little progress is being made in reducing working poverty and vulnerable forms of employment such as informal jobs and undeclared work.»

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.

Social entrepreneurship contests: Entrepreneurs working on solving global problems such as hunger, poverty, energy and education now have a smorgasbord of contests from which to choose, including the Hult Global Case Challenge, which awards $ 1 million in prizes annglobal problems such as hunger, poverty, energy and education now have a smorgasbord of contests from which to choose, including the Hult Global Case Challenge, which awards $ 1 million in prizes annGlobal Case Challenge, which awards $ 1 million in prizes annually.

International philanthropy and the western world's desire to eradicate poverty and disease can't ever truly rid themselves of their imperialist roots; as many critics have pointed out, the white savior industrial complex has never been more pervasive in global culture.

Since taking over the Caterpillar Foundation in 2011, Sullivan has led an ambitious — and, at times, edgy — quest to address the «root causes» of global poverty.

The removal of trade barriers has played a significant role in reducing global poverty and encouraging peace between nations, achievements that could be eroded by tit - for - tat backsliding.

A performing arts program for teens in foster care, service dogs for children with disabilities and a global effort to help children in extreme poverty are among the 27 charities that will receive a $ 25,000 grant as winners of the Upstanders Challenge.

How the Vatican is improving our climate, global poverty, and our waste crisis By Ibrahim AlHusseini Dec 3, 2016 I was recently invited to participate in an unusual investment conference hosted at an even more unusual venue: the Pontifical Academy of the Sciences, at the Vatican, in Vatican City, Rome.

Over the last quarter century, APEC has shaped and transformed the global economy and supported half a billion people in their rise out of poverty.

The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, for example, is spearheading the APEC - Canada Growing Business Partnership, an initiative with Global Affairs Canada to foster economic growth and reduce poverty in APEC developing economies by building the potential of MSMEs and aspiring entrepreneurs through its four - year, $ 4.49 - million initiative.

Defined as lending small amounts of money to businesses in the developing world, microfinance is a critical asset to ease global poverty.

Our experience of downward mobility allows us to relate to people in poverty in other parts of the world, and exposes the sometimes slightly condescending attitude Westerners unwittingly have toward the Global South.

But poverty is, of course, not exclusively found in the Global South.

The leaflets often make it seem as if poverty is «out there,» whether that's in the Global South or the inner city, and that the fight against it only includes a monthly donation and a couple of hours of volunteering or a short missions trip.

The global turn toward capitalism began not long after, in 1989, and within twenty - five years some two billion people had begun moving from communism and socialism toward capitalism, and thence out of poverty and into steadily advancing standards of living.

It raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to bring in participants for an interfaith conference on women and global poverty in April that featured former secretary of state Madeleine Albright, former Canadian prime minister Kim Campbell and former Irish president Mary Robinson.

In one of Messiah Complex's more sober moments, Brand points out that while it would cost # 50bn to eradicate global poverty, the super-rich have # 21 trillion sitting in offshore accounts (a culture like that, he argues, needs another Malcolm XIn one of Messiah Complex's more sober moments, Brand points out that while it would cost # 50bn to eradicate global poverty, the super-rich have # 21 trillion sitting in offshore accounts (a culture like that, he argues, needs another Malcolm Xin offshore accounts (a culture like that, he argues, needs another Malcolm X).

The «STAND UP» event seta national and global record in the Guinness World Records for the largest number of people to stand up for a cause... Lutherans across the U.S. participated in the event organised as part of «ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History», in cooperation with the United Nations» Millennium Campaign.»

They could pretty much end global poverty in one fell swoop.

The global community in which we live sure makes it hard to remain blissfully ignorant about wealth and poverty.

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

In tune with this global rhetoric, the United Front Government in its Common Minimum Program made eradication of poverty as its main emphasis along with a seven - point agenda for ensuring safe drinking water, primary education for all, primary health care, housing, food security, road networks and mid-day meals to be implemented by A.D. 200In tune with this global rhetoric, the United Front Government in its Common Minimum Program made eradication of poverty as its main emphasis along with a seven - point agenda for ensuring safe drinking water, primary education for all, primary health care, housing, food security, road networks and mid-day meals to be implemented by A.D. 200in its Common Minimum Program made eradication of poverty as its main emphasis along with a seven - point agenda for ensuring safe drinking water, primary education for all, primary health care, housing, food security, road networks and mid-day meals to be implemented by A.D. 2000.

In a context like this we as Christians are morally obligated to unconditionally intervene and combat the forces of globalization that create poverty and exclusion whether corporate globalization or finance globalization or global - capitalism undergirds the development of capitalism in the last five hundred yearIn a context like this we as Christians are morally obligated to unconditionally intervene and combat the forces of globalization that create poverty and exclusion whether corporate globalization or finance globalization or global - capitalism undergirds the development of capitalism in the last five hundred yearin the last five hundred years.

Day in and day out we are surrounded by globalising developments viz., the emergence of the global communication industry; the phenomenal growth of transnational corporations; the dominance of finance capital; globalization of poverty and hunger.

Global disparity ultimately results in poverty between countries and regions and it is translated into classes and categories within them.

As we respond to the crisis, we must also challenge the biblical and theological assumptions which have allowed the church to participate uncritically in structures that contribute to the root causes of global hunger and poverty.

It is women who are taking the lead in this global struggle, because feminization of poverty, violence against women, dehumanizing treatment of women and all other forms of pains imposed on women drive them to fight back.

He has led the One Campaign, which seeks additional spending to alleviate global poverty, and worked with Bob Geldof to arrange Live 8, the concurrent benefit concerts in all of the countries of the Group of Eight, or G8 (the world's eight largest economies).

The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies, globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.

Even politicians who want to fight global poverty need this public pressure so they can claim that it is in their own interest to act.

Like that of the NRA, the One Campaign's goal is to communicate to political leaders that there is a large bloc of citizens behind it — in this case, citizens committed to addressing global poverty.

God and Global Justice: Religion and Poverty in an Unequal World.

that all these issues — overcrowded cities, unusual and disturbing new weather patterns, the growth of global poverty, the lowering of wages while stock prices soar, the elimination of social services, the destruction of wildlife and wilderness, the protests of Maya Indians in Mexico — are products of the same global policies.

Perhaps in McLaren's church, «everything has changed,» but in mine, addressing global poverty or AIDS or healthcare will get you branded as a «bleeding heart liberal» if you don't do it right.

According to United Nations Foundation executive director Elizabeth Gore, this partnership is a natural step in the fight against global poverty and disease.

People who want to travel to third - world nations such as Mexico, the Philippines, the countries in Central America and the Mideast with the specific purpose of exploring the causes of poverty and the impact of U.S. policies can contact the Center for Global Education, Augsburg College, 731 - 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55454.

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.

Meanwhile the global economy, pushed by global capitalism, with its political center in Washington, D.C., is undercutting the remarkable achievements of Europe and Japan in developing mixed economies that virtually abolished poverty.

She shares her testimony in this video for Opportunity International, a Christian non-profit that works to empower women and fight global poverty.