Sentences with phrase «income urban economy»

The chances of developing diabetes in a middle - income urban economy such as India are very high.

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In Low Wage Workers in the New Economy (Urban Institute, 2001), Richard Kazis notes that the incomes of more than 9 million working Americans are below the poverty level.

What is the potential of urban agriculture to be a source of community development, in terms of generating employment and additional income for hard - pressed family budgets, and helping to establish self - sustaining local and regional food economies?

Students in DC Public Schools depend on breakfasts, lunches, after school snacks, supper, and fresh fruit and vegetables to counter the effects of a rough economy and widening urban income inequality.

Large urban areas have large immigrant populations spanning a range from very low income to very high income professionals and are vital to large urban economies.

The project seeks to address the climate - related problems (such as frequent drought, floods, landslides and coastal storms) posing a serious threat to the government's objective of developing strong rural economies to bridge the urban - rural income disparity, particularly in post conflict zones.

«Increasing consumption in urbanising China has been identified as an important driver of household carbon footprints over the last 20 years due to the growing urban population and incomes, while decreasing carbon intensity of the Chinese economy only weakly dampens these trends,» the study says.

As the urban revival in some American cities pushes out lower - income earners to the nearby suburbs, many of those edge cities are struggling to redefine their purpose — and identity — in a new economy.