Sentences with phrase «of general poverty»

Developing and maintaining specialized knowledge of the legal needs of domestic violence victims, and of general poverty law issues.

Develop and maintain specialized knowledge of domestic violence and of general poverty law issues.

Not exact matches

The main challenge of the contemporary world is energy poverty, according to the director general of Rosatom.

The incidence of seniors in poverty has improved from around one in three during the 1950s to one in 10 today, roughly in line with the general population.

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.

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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.

Aimed at improving the health standards of people at or below the poverty line, four of the public sector general insurers implemented UHIS in India.

Here and there in the history of Israel, groups such as the Essenes preached asceticism and the virtues of poverty, but this was by no means the general rule.

Although I dislilke proselytizing, I learned an interesting «take it to the bank» fact about Catholic charities: it is this: because good and decent people who are priests and nuns take vows of poverty and are given only small allowances, Catholic charities in general deliver a far greater percentage of your donated dollar to the work you wanted done with it.

Public morality and general goodness were being corroded by vast waves of «pagan» immigrants, by crime, poverty, and industrial strife.

On top of that, the same right - wing cons who praise capitalism as the reason that millions of people have, truthfully, found a way out of poverty, support politicians who keep wages stagnated, attack the very CONCEPT of a minimum wage despite the skyrocketing inflation and general cost of living, and support one war after another that makes a handful of people VERY rich while millions suffer, and thousands of troops come home with no legs (and thus, lose their jobs and often never recover).

That, in fact, in many places, the operations of transnational capital — far from extending access to property, creating general prosperity, promoting democratic institutions, or advancing the causes of law and justice — destroy functioning local economies and communities, sustain and deepen poverty among those capital reduces to the commodity of cheap labor, exploit unjust labor systems, support despotisms, take advantage of conditions in regions too poor to impose or enforce environmental protections (for their ecosystems or their peoples), and are often complicit in the procedural abuse of persons who can hope for no legal redress?

Frequently, the titles of their books express this general claim, e.g., Theodore J. Lowi's The End of Liberalism (EL), Robert Paul Wolfe's The Poverty of Liberalism (PL), and...

The words in which Jesus attacks wealth must not be misunderstood as meaning that he made the general demand that every one should give away his property, that he preached the ideal of poverty or demanded asceticism.

Writing on the website Spiked, Ann Furedi, the head of BPAS (the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, a euphemism similar to «Planned Parenthood»), notes that «most people who think of themselves as liberal and modern - thinking believe that rape, incest, youth, poverty or even general «unwantedness» are «good reasons» for doctors to approve abortion; and they think «sex selection» is a bad reason, which should be stopped.»

What's destroying the American famliy is unemployment, unfairness, poverty, and a general lack of hope, nudged along by his Tea Party pals and their corporate backers.

Part of the problem in helping alleviate poverty in the area is the fact that fundraising is more difficult when the general population doesn't know «hidden homelessness» exists.

The concept of poverty or pauperisation might appear too general or abstract to describe a reality that has many alarming dimensions: food, health, education...

Breastfeeding plays an important role in reducing poverty (SDG 1); addressing food safety, nutrition, and insecurity (SDG 2); promoting the general health and well - being of families (SDG 3); and creating sustainable consumption patterns (SDG 12).

Yes, a big of the reason for our higher maternal mortality rate is general health of the population, which is associated with some other reasons: poverty and lack of access to care.

I would agree, it seems to me that employment is likely to lower the chances of poverty and crime, and modern western societies have placed a lot of value on being employed (or working in general, as in being self - employed or even owning and running a business - but most people still work regular old jobs).

Riots, Communities and Victims Panel Report Commenting on the independent report which emerged today from the Riots, Communities and Victims Panel, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «While many teachers are only too aware of the social problems and all too often grinding poverty that some of their pupils face, it has to be remembered that the key task of teachers is to teach.

Speakers were Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, Rushanara Ali, Shadow Minister for Education and Alison Garnham, Chief Executive of Child Poverty Action Group.

The UN Secretary General is quoted in the statement to have said that the summit would chart a new era of sustainable development in which poverty would be eradicated, prosperity would be shared and the core drivers of climate change would be tackled.

Marked «sensitive» and sent to the work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, two weeks after the general election, the civil service memo forecasts that «around 40,000 more... children might in the absence of any behaviour change, find themselves in poverty as a result of reducing the cap to # 23,000».

The immediate general response from key media persons point to a certain poverty of leadership at the top of the NPP.

This line was attached by Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS, who said rising poverty was in part fuelled by the strict pay deals imposed on low paid public sector workers.

Tony Woodley, Unite the union joint general secretary, said the Chancellor had gone some way to tackling the issues of fuel poverty but he had missed an opportunity to levy a windfall tax on the excess energy company profits.

«On our part, the National Social Protection Policies designed to rescue Nigerians out of poverty and vulnerability, would further help to restore abundance in the general well being of the citizens as lives would be positively impacted through this scheme», he stressed.

The Restaurant Opportunities Center United points out that tipped restaurant workers suffer from three times the poverty rate of the general population.

Operation Integrity (with Attorney General Eric Schneiderman) has brought dozens of convictions, including that of two former lawmakers and six Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty executives.

Dave Prentis, general secretary of Unison, praised the government for listening and taking up issues that matter to people such as care for the elderly, curbs on risk - taking and sharp practices by the financial sector, poverty and the environment.

Dave Prentis, the general secretary of Unison, said the Queen's speech showed the government «had listened» and taken up issues that mattered to people, such as poverty, the environment, care for the elderly, and curbs on risk - taking and sharp practices by the financial sector.

A former Chaplain of Aso Villa Chapel and General Overseer of All Christians Fellowship Mission, Maitama, Rev. Dr. William Okoye, has expressed concern over the hunger and poverty in the country, which he said had worsened cases of suicide.

Commenting on the latest child poverty figures, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «Many teachers see on a daily basis the effect that living in poverty has on children.

«Genetic improvement of these crops has proved to be a powerful weapon for combating hunger and poverty,» says Ruben Echeverría, director - general of CIAT.

In the last decade of his life, Lange became interested in increasing access to health care in general — by setting up health insurance plans in Africa, for instance — and driving down poverty.

«This is a momentous achievement, which will allow AfricaRice to invigorate its effort to reach the common objectives of improving food security and reducing poverty in Africa, through advances in rice research and training of rice breeders,» stated Dr Roy - Macauley, Director General of AfricaRice on the occasion of the signature of the Memorandum of Understanding in late 2016

In September 2011, the United Nations General Assembly High - Level Meeting on «Addressing desertification, land degradation and drought in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication» brought together political leaders from across the world.

All of a sudden my general (and at times very overwhelming) interest in this massive social justice issue of global extreme poverty and gender inequality became a narrow - focused mission to help a few of Uganda's brightest young women go to college and become leaders in their communities.

«Indeed, the entire film lacks any sense of poverty beyond the simple absence of luxury... The acting in general tends toward the one - note and over-the-top.

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Before stepping down as secretary, she told Virginia's General Assembly that the «trifecta» of challenges facing Virginia public education are rising poverty rates, higher achievement expectations, and decreased levels of funding.

Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the NEU said: «The level of child poverty teachers and school staff are witnessing on a daily basis is having a dreadful effect on the life chances and education of far too many children and young people.

In general, districts with higher poverty rates have higher rates of maltreatment investigations.

«The new analysis on education's far - reaching benefits released today should be good news for all those working on the Sustainable Development Goal to eradicate poverty by 2030,» said Irina Bokova, Director - General of UNESCO.

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