Sentences with phrase «of widespread poverty»

Suspenseful pacing keeps the pages turning, and the provocative questions raised about conservation, consumerism, and the global effects of widespread poverty will keep students thinking long after the last page.

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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.

A large number of North Koreans resort to bribing officials to have their documents approved, which means a passport can cost up to $ 3,000 — a sum of money most can only dream of in a country where widespread poverty is regularly reported.

That's why you're increasingly hearing them talking up the concept of universal basic income, a social welfare program that would ensure widespread unemployment doesn't bring about equally widespread poverty and social unrest.

The book does not discuss at length issues such as widespread poverty and income inequality, which, despite improvements in recent years, continue to top the list of problems in Latin America.

Hundreds of millions of people live without electricity, Kerry said, and hunger and poverty is widespread throughout the country.

The Africans that I met while living in Liberia experienced all of life as erotic even though there was widespread poverty and disease.

The long list of comments exhibited here are a great example of why poverty is so widespread in this world.

Most of the countries where abortion is illegal also suffer from widespread poverty and limited access to contraception — huge drivers in the abortion rate.

The Rt Rev Tim Thornton, a trustee of the Feeding Britain charity, said the survey had confirmed churches which have helped people who are struggling are «responding to a widespread and pressing need and that food poverty extends far beyond food bank use alone».

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.

More than 85 per cent of these poverty victims are rural residents, whose sole hope lies in the development of widespread subsistence farming.

Hannah Arendt, in her illuminating book On Revolution (Viking, 1965), exalts the American Revolution as the most successful one and traces that success to the fact that «it occurred in a country that knew nothing of mass poverty and among a people who had a widespread experience of self - government;» She says that one of the blessings in the American situation was that the revolution grew out of a conflict with a limited monarchy, for «the more absolute the ruler, the more absolute the revolution will be which replaces him.»

His personal story — born in poverty in the South Bronx, growing up around drugs and violence, then making it out of the ghetto and winding up at Harvard — was what gave him the passion and the commitment to create the Harlem Children's Zone in the face of numerous obstacles and widespread skepticism.

The February protests were the largest that Bulgaria has seen since the fall of communism, with more than 100,000 Bulgarian citizens mobilizing themselves against poverty, high energy bills and widespread political and social corruption.

It is the design of the so - called Bismarckian pension system that makes widespread pensioner poverty an imminent threat.

The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 caused great economic and social problems, including widespread unemployment and poverty.

For every extra zero latched on to already ludicrous inflation figures, we are greeted with the disheartening news of cholera outbreaks, tortured opposition and widespread poverty, matched with images of a defiant president, damning a Western colonial threat that has long since perished.

There has been widespread despondency, brought about by severe hardships, rising cost of living, high levels of youth unemployment, collapsed businesses and increasing poverty which is partly the result of a 4 year old energy crisis.

He described 2015 as «one of the most difficult in our 58 - year history» due to «widespread despondency, brought about by severe hardships, rising cost of living, high levels of youth unemployment, collapsed businesses and increasing poverty which is partly the result of a 4 year old energy crisis.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

It is our duty to work tirelessly next year to lay bare the facts of widespread corruption, manifest incompetence and increased poverty before the Ghanaian people, so that they can have no doubt about the compelling necessity of saying goodbye to John Mahama and his government, no matter the juicy inducements that are going to be offered to them.

[13] He adds that «At a time of rising wealth inequality, and widespread asset poverty, the old Liberal slogan of «ownership for all» has never been more urgent.»

Oil - rich Nigeria produces the most oil of any African country, yet struggles with widespread poverty and corruption.

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».

«It can be depressing to see widespread poverty, a high level of unemployment, and lack of resources in schools, but they are rolling up their sleeves to figure out how to overcome,» Murphy says.

Independent Thinking founder Ian Gilbert's increasing frustration with educational policies that favour «no excuses» and «compliance», and that ignore the broader issues of poverty and inequality, is shared by many others across the sphere of education — and this widespread disaffection has led to the assembly of a diverse cast of teachers, school leaders, academics and poets who unite in this book to challenge the status quo.

Widespread ignorance, poverty, sectarianism, violence, non democratic culture & values, human especially women rights violations and social backwardness of the region of Southern Punjab because of the feudalism and constant military regimes only provided extra impetus to this group of youth.

In an era of widespread disagreement on education reform, increased confidence in local control of education, and the absence of a dominant theory on where reform goes from here, visionary mayors are emerging as leaders of thought and action in defining a new role for municipalities to play in developing and educating young people, with particular attention to children living in poverty.

and the update, «THE MYTH OF WIDESPREAD AMERICAN POVERTY ``.

A March 2012 report found that chronic early absenteeism is widespread in Kent County's urban areas, where the percentage of the population living at or below the poverty line is high, and is especially prevalent among African - American and Hispanic youth.

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Overall, the GAO found that Black students, boys, and students with disabilities were all disproportionately disciplined in the 2013 - 2014 school year (the latest available data) and that disproportionality is widespread and persistent despite the level of school poverty, type of disciplinary action, or type of public school attended (e.g., traditional, magnet, charter, alternative, or special education).

These include widespread destruction of ecosystems, especially through deforestation, climatic instability, and contamination in the soils and waters that all contribute to excruciating poverty.

Short clips examine her personal philosophy, leadership of Kenya's Green Belt Movement, and her ability to empower rural women to mobilize around Kenya's issues of dwindling natural resources, widespread poverty and oppressive government practices.

I could tell Guatemala was a comer on the international tourism scene, but who knew how many people would share our taste for out - of - the - way accommodations in a country still suffering widespread poverty and pockets of high crime?

This elegiac work, while focusing specifically on Portland, Maine, serves as a visual representation of small town America; where hope prevails despite widespread poverty and a persistent opioid crisis.

Widespread poverty and the failure to redress the injustices of the past have contributed to an environment in which anxiety, unrest and conflict predominate.

Secondly, if you look at the quality of life in China, the rampant industrial pollution, the widespread labor unrest, the corruption that allows poisoned milk products to enter the market, etc., then you must admit that China's «rise out poverty» is not such a wunderkind story — they may have some monetary wealth, but they are also suffering a great deal of pollution and associated diseases... and their dirty emissions cross the Pacific, and are noticeable in Washington and Oregon.

Biochar, the modern version of an ancient Amazonian agricultural practice called Terra Preta (black earth), is gaining widespread credibility as a way to address world hunger, climate change, rural poverty, deforestation, and energy shortages... SIMULTANEOUSLY!

The central argument is that, since widespread poverty is no longer a problem, social democracy is irrelevant and what is needed is a postmaterialist politics of wellbeing.

Mary Evelyn Tucker, one of the most eloquent voices of the eco-spiritual movement, spoke at the U.N. about the daunting challenges faced by 21st - century humanitarians: widespread environmental degradation, crippling poverty, social inequities and unrestrained militarism.

As of now, humanity has no concrete plan for how to deal with the growing population of human beings on the planet, along with the massive resource depletion, widespread poverty and pollution.

Last December, a spokesman for the World Wildlife Fund, an environmental pressure group, warned, «The deal reached at Copenhagen will have huge ramifications for the lives of hundreds of millions of people who are already highly vulnerable due to widespread poverty.»

After all, the widespread use of income support for alleviating poverty in families where a woman has had a child out of wedlock is relatively recent.

AFTER spending upwards of a trillion Euros of taxpayers money on the disastrous Energiewende program, all but destroying Germany's industrial heartland and causing widespread energy poverty to consumers and businesses alike, ideologically green - agressive Germany is giving up on its mad rush into unreliable «energy» — wind and solar — undergoing the biggest coal - fired power expansion in her history...

Climate change is real and it is threatening everyone, however it is people in the developing countries that are already suffering the adverse impacts of climate change and addition widespread poverty.

Consequential to such a scenario are widespread food shortages, extreme poverty, massive destruction of our habitats, and imbalance in our ecosystems.

Blog Post from Dr. Cecilia Sorensen, Consortium Fellow: Global climate change is predicted to exacerbate underlying determinants of poverty and widespread effects on human health..

While there have been advances, progress is hampered by population growth, widespread poverty, insufficient investments to address the problem and the biggest culprit: a lack of political will.»