Sentences with phrase «poor households»

Women and girls represent 50 percent of the people living in poor households in developing countries.

Some of the smartest children from poor households could be given # 400 by the government to prepare them for university, it has been announced.

The impact of the cut on poorer households was initially overlooked amid the headline grabbing cut in the basic rate of income tax, from 22 per cent to 20 per cent.

(Table) Number of fuel poor households nationally 2011.

Whilst the school choice process is clearly actively used by poorer households, it is not able to overcome the disadvantage of being unable to afford to live near a better school.

The consultation comes after new figures showed government programmes helping poorer households become more energy efficient were cut in half.

That's because poor households with access to electricity have little equipment to plug in.

Many poor households pay in excess of 65 percent of their gross income for rent and utilities, leaving about $ 75 per week for food, clothing and health care.

And many poor households simply don't have the one thing you'd need to use cloth diapers in the first place — a washing machine.

First, it has the potential to negatively impact working poor households and senior citizens disproportionately.

Compared to kids who come from vocabulary poor households and education systems that don't emphasize rich curriculum — well, there is no comparison.

The majority of students live in relatively poor households, with 75 percent receiving free or reduced - cost lunches.

The school is located in a relatively deprived area, but has no criteria in its admissions policy to give priority to children from poorer households.

As these are generally focused on poorer households, they may better compensate for the modest cost of the fee than replacing the fee with an income tax would.

The main reason is that poor households with regular access to electricity do not have much equipment to plug in.

«High food prices are of major concern especially for low - income food deficit countries that may face problems in financing food imports and for poor households which spend a large share of their income on food,» Abbassian said.

Today, more than two - thirds of poor households in America have cable or satellite television, and nearly half have a personal computer.

This lack of commitment is further evidenced by the withdrawal of all Treasury funding for energy efficiency programmes from next year in contrast to the Devolved Administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland which will continue to support fuel - poor households through their own Government - funded programmes.»

The new policy will see the government provide funds to buy digital TV boxes for distribution to poor households as part of Ghana's digital migration efforts.

Through our program (Fighting Rural Household Poverty through Piggery), we support poor households with training in production (breeding stock selection, housing and veterinary services, feeding and waste management, pigs).

Most of the world's deadliest pollution is concentrated in the Third World, largely among poor households which have little or no access to electricity produced by fossil - fuel power.

Variation in school attributes, proximity, and fees across neighborhoods is used to identify factors which affect whether poor households send their children to government school, private school, or

It's not an exclusive look at poor households in Toronto.

In parts of India, for example, where 170 million households continue to cook with solid fuel, middle - class citizens are now donating their $ 50 gas subsidies to poorer households so they too can tap the cleaner fuel source.

The gap between what these households need to spend (when compared to non-fuel poor households) is also projected to have increased from # 1 billion in 2012, to # 1.1 billion in 2014; and the average individual gap was projected to increase from # 443 in 2012 to # 480 in 2014.

A transformative programme of housing improvements is needed to get the job done far quicker and a commitment to additional and adequate resources to guarantee we do not leave the majority of the fuel poor households still living in expensive - to - heat homes, over the next five to ten years.

But WRI research finds that with the right design, a carbon price could protect poor households from increasing energy prices, support the middle class and spur economic growth.

NEA's is urging politicians to address the three main elements of fuel poverty — poor household energy efficiency, high energy prices and low incomes:

Deploying this clean energy will generate over $ 100,000 in village income over the next three years, increasing poor household income by 36.4 % while eliminating 15,000 liters of kerosene and 37 tons of CO2.

Between 2008 and 2012, the federal government implemented a handful of ad - hoc policies meant to deter poorer households from taking on excessive debt, including the reduction of the maximum amortization period for government - backed home loans to 25 years from 40 years.

In one poor household Lareau studied, for example, family members didn't look each other in the eye when they spoke — an appropriate response in a culture where eye contact can be interpreted as a threat, but ill - suited to a job interview where a firm handshake and a steady gaze are considered assets, and a failure to make eye contact can make a candidate seem shifty.»

«Rather than targeting tax cuts at millionaires, cutting VAT would benefit everyone and help poorer households far more than raising the personal allowance.»

Second, its benefits are skewed to favor wealthier rather than poorer households because the amounts are linked to the School Tax Relief (STAR) program.

Poor households already face both higher costs and a higher rate of inflation than others, and have already seen many benefits uprated by less than inflation in recent years.

The SNAP program provided a debit card to purchase eligible food to 22 million poor households nationwide, helping nearly 46 million individuals.

A Centrica report on rising domestic gas bills has triggered a torrent of abuse from the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, who are calling on the government to do more to help poorer households before the winter.

Moreover, 49 % of all fuel poor households receive no Winter Fuel Payment, as they are not pensioner households.

Local authorities instead of central government will calculate council tax rebates to poorer households under plans that will also cut spending by 10 %, saving # 490m a year from 2013 - 4.

An influential group of MPs has said the move will penalise low - earning households and said the prime minister was «unreasonable» in targeting poorer households for revenue - raising measures.

Again, a toxic mix of high levies and taxes that make up the Energy Sector Levies have kept the cost of power at exorbitant levels said to be killing businesses and sucking poor household consumers dry.

Filling the modern energy void in poor households creates only a small rise in global warming pollution

But now wealthier households tend to live further inland, while poorer households tend to live near the coast,» says the ETH doctoral student.

Since the program was phased, covering poor households in the northern part of Karnataka in the first phase before expanding to the rest of the state, the study compared the health outcomes of roughly 45,000 households from villages that were covered by the insurance to roughly 37,000 households from villages that were not covered by the program.

Additionally this research demonstrated that remittance payments empower poor households and may be an important means of sharing prosperity between Sub-Saharan Africa and other countries in the future.

However, clearly poorer households still have less healthy shopping baskets and the broad reformulation of foods high in salt has not reached them as much as we would have hoped.»