Sentences with phrase «poverty in the developing world»

The forfeited assets would then be paid out to a charity of the trustee's choosing dedicated to the alleviation of disease and poverty in the developing world, according to the plan.

Like the largely untold news about decreasing poverty in the developing world, this is «a tremendous success story that has only barely been recognized,» according to the World Bank.

«Over the last four years we built a network in Uganda of over 1,000 sales agents and are on our way to establishing a self - funded system for fighting disease and poverty in the developing world.

We also participate in Kiva.org, which gives small business loans to people living in poverty in the developing world.

Nelson Mandela today said poverty in the developing world was an evil on a par with slavery and apartheid as he called on world leaders to honour their promises on aid and trade justice.

Mr Brown has called for a «year of action» to tackle poverty in the developing world and hopes showcasing efforts from major companies will help save lives and boost struggling economies.

We also know three things: the U.S. has the highest rates of student poverty in the developed world; one million students are homeless; and per - pupil spending ranges from about $ 6,500 in some districts to more than $ 40,000 in others.

The good news that (happily) violated that norm and rippled in headlines this week came in a World Bank report showing a broad reduction in deep poverty and concluding that the great global recession did not increase poverty in the developing world.

It is the most affordable approach for developed countries, while providing significant new sources of development finance to tackle poverty in the developing world.

Publications: Webster P. J. and J. Jian 2011: Probability, Uncertainty and prediction: A pathway towards the alleviation of poverty in the developing world.

A new report: The Anti-Development Bank: The World Bank's Regressive Energy Policies by the London - based Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) finds that the World Bank has abdicated its primary mission of tackling poverty in the developing world.

World - renowned economist Hernando de Soto says that, by establishing a peer - to - peer secure record of property transactions, blockchain could be the key to tackling poverty in the developing world.

Inspired by the Jewish commitment to justice, AJWS works to realize human rights and end poverty in the developing world.

Not exact matches

Past Malaysian governments largely succeeded in lifting the country from poverty and attracting foreign investors, part of a long - term goal of reaching developed world income status.

While I share Reyes's deep admiration for Kim, it's worth pointing out that the best way to eradicate poverty is to start more uncomplicated businesses like Reyes's in the developing world and here.

America is the only place in the developed world — in nearly the whole world, actually — where giving a new parent a chance to recuperate and bond with his or her kid without risking poverty and unemployment is going above and beyond.

As the founder of Childs Capital LLC, a Wall Street firm that seeks to alleviate poverty in developing nations by investing in private enterprise, her business trips take her around the world, from Africa to Latin America.

Some of the individuals were behind «megagifts» of $ 200 million to $ 2 billion, big checks most often associated with tech - industry tycoons trying to solve the world's biggest problems — from developing world poverty to lack of universal education — in one bank transfer of epic proportions.

In addition, a number of studies have showed that even if developed countries did actually cut their agricultural subsidies, it would make little difference to world poverty.

Many of the world's poor in developing countries — nearly 2 billion, according to the World Bank — struggle to lift themselves out of poverty simply because they don't haworld's poor in developing countries — nearly 2 billion, according to the World Bank — struggle to lift themselves out of poverty simply because they don't haWorld Bank — struggle to lift themselves out of poverty simply because they don't have...

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

He grew up in poverty, but Ralph Lauren has created one of the most successful fashion empires of all time — and developed a fortune that puts him among the world's richest individuals.

Smartphones allow farmers and textile workers in the developing world to start small businesses and move out of desperate poverty.

Defined as lending small amounts of money to businesses in the developing world, microfinance is a critical asset to ease global poverty.

Over 1 billion people in the world today live under unacceptable conditions of poverty, mostly in developing countries, and particularly in rural areas of low - income Asia and the Pacific, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the least developed countries.

In the face of arguments that say we should move away from talk of privilege, I simply ask this: If exposure to the developing world and poverty can create a greater sense of moral perspective and responsibility, can't a deeper interaction with the historic and contemporary forms of racial injustice in our country also lead to a deepened moral perspective and greater sense of stewardship and responsibilitIn the face of arguments that say we should move away from talk of privilege, I simply ask this: If exposure to the developing world and poverty can create a greater sense of moral perspective and responsibility, can't a deeper interaction with the historic and contemporary forms of racial injustice in our country also lead to a deepened moral perspective and greater sense of stewardship and responsibilitin our country also lead to a deepened moral perspective and greater sense of stewardship and responsibility?

The United Kingdom is the world's sixth - largest economy, but it ranked only 25th out of 41 developed countries in the world for child poverty in Unicef's report.

Cockburn combines social protest and faith while confronting issues of poverty and violence in developing nations and celebrating the world's diversity.

Globalization has substantially contributed to the intensification of debt, poverty and economic crisis in the developing world.

In its millennial report on poverty, the World Bank reveals that 24 percent of the population in developing nations live — or struggle to live — in absolute poverty, on less than one dollar a daIn its millennial report on poverty, the World Bank reveals that 24 percent of the population in developing nations live — or struggle to live — in absolute poverty, on less than one dollar a dain developing nations live — or struggle to live — in absolute poverty, on less than one dollar a dain absolute poverty, on less than one dollar a day.

Kozol's account of the human toll of poverty and inequality reflects an all - too - common reality in the U.S. and in the developing world.

As the world's largest nonprofit independent research and training organization IRRI develops new rice varieties and crop management techniques to address poverty and hunger and improve the health of rice farmers and consumers in a sustainable manner.

In the developing world, it's been correct to oppose formula manufacturers trying to convince people living in abject poverty that formula is somehow «better», in the absence of reliable clean water, and risking malnutrition due to dilutioIn the developing world, it's been correct to oppose formula manufacturers trying to convince people living in abject poverty that formula is somehow «better», in the absence of reliable clean water, and risking malnutrition due to dilutioin abject poverty that formula is somehow «better», in the absence of reliable clean water, and risking malnutrition due to dilutioin the absence of reliable clean water, and risking malnutrition due to dilution.

For 75 years and in over 90 countries around the world we have spent our time thinking about how to help women and men develop enterprises to work their way out of poverty, and how to help them hold their governments to account to ensure they have a fair chance.

Field, appointed by David Cameron to conduct a wide - ranging inquiry into the causes of poverty, said the Labour target was mathematically unobtainable, had not been achieved anywhere in the free world and revealed he would look to develop better targets.

With the help of affordable irrigation and access to markets, farmers in the developing world can grow more food and climb out of poverty

Our current economic system has lifted billions of people and entire nations out of poverty, and provides most people in the developed world with a standard of living that royalty couldn't dream of a century or two ago.

Economist Esther Duflo combines «innovative field experiments with rigorous empirical analysis» to identify «linkages and causal relationships between policy, poverty, behavior, and socioeconomic status» in the developing world, focusing on the well - being of women and children.

CCT programs are used around the world — in both the developing world and in wealthy nations — to reduce poverty and encourage a variety of goals, including school attendance and achievement.

As the world gears towards post-2015, proper identification of factors that breed poverty, appropriate ways of targeting poverty, and most importantly, how to ensure equitable distribution and allocation of benefits accrued from feasible economic growth in the developing world might hold the key.

The same can be said of all kinds of resources in Africa that have been continuously extracted through exploitative arrangements that, combined with disastrous geopolitics, support comfortable lifestyles in the industrialized nations and poverty and struggle in the developing world.

Clearly, religious organizations have long sponsored missionary and humanitarian efforts in the developing world in ways far more extensive than educators have done.So often these have been inspired by women, making me wonder why concern for global poverty has become a gendered activity.In their important book, Half the Sky (2009), (required reading for Ghana participants), authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn argue that the lack of global attention to the plight of women is the greatest, challenge in the world today.

These are becoming the ubiquitous technology infrastructure both for youth in our country - even young people in poverty - and for the developing world abroad.

It reminds the developed world that the Congo has suffered, still suffers, and will continue to suffer if the rest of the world continues to leave it to decay in the midst of violence, poverty, diseases and exploitation.

The country has the developed world's highest poverty rate among the aged: 45.1 per cent, compared with an average 13.5 per cent for 30 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

For example, World Vision, which assists children living in poverty in developing countries, did well in the governance category, receiving a score of 10.6 out of 10 (we give one bonus point to organizations that disclose the CEO's exact salary).

Direct Abundance is a Canadian not - for - profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of people in struggling developing world communities through education and poverty reduction. Caribbean S.E.A. works with local partners to empower youth to take care of their water, from the Ridge to the Reef.

If its goal of providing family planning services to 120 million more women in the developing world is met, the payoff would be enormous at multiple levels: lower maternal and child mortality, better health, higher educational attainment, poverty reduction, greater food and water security.

If you're involved in the deploying locally - available renewable energy in the developing world with the aim of combatting climate change and reducing poverty, then being a finalist for the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy is a big deal.

At the same time, the development crisis, and beyond it the fundamental aspirations of the developing world, demand a vast expansion of energy services to finally eliminate endemic «energy poverty,» a goal that, in turn, seems inexorably to imply increased carbon emissions.