Sentences with phrase «poor access to services»

Established in 1929, RCCE helps rural communities achieve a thriving and sustainable future by addressing issues, such as social isolation, poor access to services and a shortage of affordable housing, that are crucial to people living and working in rural Essex today.

Not exact matches

Both are middle powers that depend on access to international markets because their populations are either too small (Canada) or too poor (Mexico) to consume all the goods and services they are capable of producing.

Seven in 10 of the world's poor live in remote or rural areas, where access to medical services is sharply limited or not available at all: 5 billion people can't reach or afford essential surgical care, from emergency caesarian sections to cancer surgery.

In their deliberations, they agreed to 20 specific actions to address global economic and social problems, ranging from building a corps of community health workers in poor regions of the world, to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack access to financial services, to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed workers.

The new measure is aimed at giving poor women in particular access to reproductive health services.

But the hukou system often broke down when confronted with China's mass urbanization in recent decades, which saw hundreds of millions of migrant workers move into metropolises despite poor access to housing and social services.

The Gates Foundation has donated more than $ 36 billion, including for projects that expand access to immunizations in developing countries and provide financial services to poor communities.

Living Goods seeks to reinvent how the poor access vital goods and services, leading to significant gains in the health and wealth of families living in poverty.

Innovation and Activities Living Goods seeks to reinvent how the poor access vital goods and services, leading to significant gains in the health and wealth of families living in poverty.

Growing sectors of the populations are denied access to education, basic health services, or jobs that would allow even a precarious subsistence, The poor, the marginalized and the excluded are not significant consumers, much less players in the global market; they have no access to information highways and hardly a chance to shape any of the other significant byways of the process of capitalist globalization.

(Hills, J. 1989: 134) The liberalization argument responds to this by stating that «if individual subscribers are too poor to meet the increased costs of access then they must forfeit telephone service and drop off the network.

Government — if you want the poor to have access to services they can not afford — that's what federal social programs are for.

Women died in childbirth not from lack of technology, but from poor nutrition, lack of access to emergency services, and no antibiotics.

Campaigners including the British Humanist Association (BHA) have argued that this restriction is a violation of Northern Irish women's rights, and places additional undue barriers on their access to legal sexual and reproductive services and with costs on average at # 900, has a disproportionate effect on poorer women.

Hence much of the changes that many Argentines credit the Kirchners for having brought about (such as family subsidies, higher employment levels and stronger purchasing power despite rising inflation, as well as access to services and products that the poor were suddenly able to access post-2001) are expected to yield wide turnout among Argentina's poorer classes, without the Frente para la Victoria having to worry about registering — and then turning out — those who might be considered marginal voters in the US.

The LEAP programme is cash transfer being implemented by the Department of Social Welfare under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MOGCSP), aimed at reducing poverty by increasing consumption and promoting access to services and opportunities among the extreme poor and vulnerable households, elderly persons 65 years and above without any support and severely disabled persons without any productive capacity and recently, the extremely poor pregnant women and children under 2 years old.

During the budget hearing, which was attended by state senators and Assembly members, Lhota came under fire for the MTA's myriad failings — derailments, poor Access - a-Ride service, even the condition of bathrooms on the Long Island Rail Road, according to the New York Times.

«Cuomo vetoes bill that would have required state to fund legal services for the poor», New York Daily News, Jan. 1, 2017, Accessed Jan 11, 2017

He acknowledged the health of the poorest people has not improved at the same pace as that of the richest and named access to GP services as a key factor in determining health outcomes.

Care deficiencies include a lack of care planning, poor case management, inadequate access to nutritional information or food at appropriate times; insufficient treatment review and blood glucose monitoring; poor understanding of medication and inadequate access to preventative screening services such as foot care and retinal screening..

Eight protesters were arrested after they blocked access to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office while calling on the state to cover the cost of legal services for the poor.

«The poor performance of industry and the business sector in general, could also be attributed to other challenges they faced, including, but not limited to, lack of access to finance, high interest rates, an unstable exchange rate, high import duties on raw materials and machinery, poor facilitation of import and export trade, particularly at our ports, inadequate and poor quality of raw materials for industrial processing, a poorly developed domestic trade infrastructure, lack of effective collaboration between research institutions and industry, limited access to serviced land for industrial production activities and poor standards of regulation and certification.»

«In the Senate, I want to fight for public safety and criminal justice reform, education programs, affordable housing, increased access to mental health care, economic development and opportunities, and social service reforms, especially as they affect middle class families and the working poor,» he said in a statement.

Okunmadewa explained that the YESSO programme was a welfarist intervention programme of the World Bank aimed at reducing poverty by allowing poor people access to increased opportunities for youth employment and social service delivery.

«The rapid shifts in disease burden place poor people in low - and middle - income countries at high risk of not having access to appropriate services and incurring payments for health care that push them deeper into poverty,» said Timothy Evans, Director of Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank Group.

Replogle said better access to public transport would also foster economic opportunities, providing the poor with better access to employment and services - and the private sector had an important role to play.

«Hamilton has extensive health and social services but 40 per cent of respondents felt their access to health care was either fair or poor,» said Dr. Firestone, who holds a PhD in public health.

People who receive poor marks in the national system may eventually be barred from travel and denied access to social services, according to government documents.

The program targets the poorest members in a village and provides a productive asset grant, training and support, life skills coaching, temporary cash consumption support, and typically access to savings accounts and health information or services.

Perhaps the harsher weather conditions in some areas of Russia, dramatic growth of smoking women in Russia, poorer health care, and limited access to quality skin care products and services due to poorer economy makes Russian women age faster in the face than western women.

1.4 by 2030 ensure that all men and women, particularly the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership, and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology, and financial services including microfinance

Housed in the Department of Health and Human Services, Head Start has in the past emphasized not just early education but also socialization and giving poor children and their families access to an array of nutritional, health, and social sServices, Head Start has in the past emphasized not just early education but also socialization and giving poor children and their families access to an array of nutritional, health, and social servicesservices.

In many cases, traveling employees such as sales reps and service personnel need access to learning resources in areas with poor or no Internet connectivity.

The study showed working poor and even middle - class single parents face unequal access to preschool services.

Chalk artificially high grades up to one more advantage rich kids have over their poorer counterparts, including more college - prep courses, more access to test prep services, and more with parents who attended college.

Some critics wonder whether parents would have access to enough information about their various options to distinguish high - quality services from poor ones.

With a high poverty rate, poor technical infrastructure, and difficulty providing service to and accessing information from remote and disadvantaged areas, Zambia faces many challenges to building a quality education system.

Schools in poor and low - income neighborhoods have often lack access to adequate educational resources and social services and may be ill equipped to provide interventions to the trauma associated with poverty.

The article goes on to say that people using proxies and unblockers will «only be able to access the service in the country where they currently are», but what this poor choice of words actually means is that they'd have to disable their VPN in order for their IP to be identified and actually log in at all.

(AP)-- Verizon Wireless on Thursday announced it's opening up access to smart phones for customers who prepay for service, such as people with poor credit and those who don't want to be tied down by long - term contracts.

Addressing the issue of too many dogs and cats in poor communities is not simple; overall access to convenient, affordable spay / neuter services is disparate with some states having only a very few accessible, affordable programs to serve the state, and some statewide programs that do exist lack the funds to operate effectively.

For some, Katrina brought a terrible, dawning awareness of how dangerous it can be to be poor in America, to not have resources or access to the very services that could save the lives of your loved ones.

Your organization focuses a lot of its outreach in poor or underserved com - munities, especially those with little or no access to veterinary services, with your MASH unit.

For the poorest, more expensive energy reduces their access to energy - driven services like increased use of fertilizer, vaccine refrigeration, reasonable transportation, and many other things that can improve the conditions in which they live.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the British government today (World Population Day) have been hosting a London Summit on Family Planning, aimed at expanding access to contraception and related health services for women, particularly in poor urban communities, who want more control over the size of their families.

We believe that promoting the inclusion of women and the poorest people in society within efforts to achieve universal access to sustainable energy services, and related business opportunities, can help secure a just energy transition that leaves no one behind.

Such revenues can help governments strengthen social safety nets for poor and vulnerable communities and finance the infrastructure needed to provide access to basic services such as water, sanitation, and energy.

Still, 1.2 billion people today lack access to electricity connections and millions of households, businesses and community institutions receive poor and inadequate supplies of electricity services.

Without access to energy service, the poor will be deprived of the most basic of human rights and of economic opportunities to improve their standard of living.

Access to modern energy services is an important element for reducing poverty and improving the lives of the world's poorest.