Sentences with phrase «rather than poverty»

The costumes and colours of the tribes are simply fascinating, appearing entirely surreal against what we know, an showing an element of wealth in some cases rather than poverty.

Finding solutions is even harder when the diagnosis mistakenly suggests teachers unions — rather than poverty and segregation — are at the heart of the problem.

Sorting schools by initial achievement rather than poverty level produces even larger differences (see Figure 1).

Dr Philip Withington at the University of Cambridge has found that affluence rather than poverty has tended to drive consumption levels, especially among the middle classes and higher, even though legislation and enforcement is often focused on the poorer parts of the population.

On the other hand, economist Jack Mintz worried that it sounded too complicated, and also that it focused on middle and higher earners rather than poverty alleviation.

Not exact matches

Job creation is another way to tackle the cause, rather than the symptoms, of poverty, and in 2013 Toms began manufacturing shoes in markets where it donates, starting with Haiti.

Being a giver of fish rather than a teacher of fishing «is not the way to deal with poverty,» says Widmer.

First, rather than giving workers a true chance to prosper, the companies keep tight reins on key aspects of the business, restricting workers» earning potential while saddling them with hefty lease payments and reducing pay to poverty levels.

But, rather than fighting child poverty on First Nations reserves, the government has been spending literally millions of your dollars and mine to fight against equal child welfare support for First Nations kids.

The three - day Central Economic Work Conference is expected to set major changes in economic indicators to reflect more on the quality of the economic growth rather than mere growth speed, while tackling specific issues such as mounting debts, poverty and pollution.

Poverty is the direct result of people who would rather spout their political and religious beliefs and prejudices than help their fellow man.

It's true also that poverty, oppression, disease, and hunger have always been far from me, and that I often choose to live in blissful disregard of them rather than think upon and sacrifice significantly to aid those in need.

Yes, of course, there was the poverty of the underclass - but the conventional wisdom of the time viewed that as a social rather than an economic problem.

Recognizing that economic and political systems and cultural practices explain persistent poverty in LDCs, they might argue that personal conversion is a prelude to social reform, rather than the other way around.

If Chip's argument is taken to its logical conclusion, Miami and Hong Kong should be squalid cesspools of poverty rather than vibrant centers of industry and commerce.

A new generation of American Jews are compelled by issues in their own backyard - like poverty and illiteracy - rather than the faraway flashpoint of Israel, the survey found.

Only if we must define development as merely overcoming poverty rather than overcoming all human deprivation is there any reason to broaden the definition of poverty as Sen does.

But the point is that in addition to the obvious pressures of population growth, strategies of development that ignore existing injustice in patterns of wealth distribution enlarge the problems of severe poverty rather than mitigating them.

If people travel to Mexico or other third - world countries, it will most likely be to take advantage of beautiful beaches and favorable exchange rates rather than to explore the causes of hunger and poverty.16 The majority of people, rich or poor, who actually follow the news rely heavily on major television networks and local newspapers.

In other words, rather than a systemic interpretation of the problem leading to a systemic view of its solution, the systemic diagnosis provides a framework that says, in effect, this is the way it will always be, and then individual attributes are credited with causing people to stay in poverty or to move out of it.

Working on the principle that it is better to teach a man to fish than give him a fish or a sandwich, people, like the local council, can criticise us for encouraging the poor rather than helping them to escape poverty.

Say: «Come, let me convey unto you what G - D has [really] forbidden to you: «Do not ascribe divinity, in any way, to anything (or anyone) beside HIM; and [do not offend against but, rather,] do good unto your parents; and do not kill your children (born or unborn) for fear of poverty --[for] it is WE who shall provide sustenance for you as well as for them; and do not commit any shameful deeds, be they open or secret; and do not take any human being's life -[the life] which G - D has declared to be sacred - otherwise than in [the pursuit of] justice: this has HE enjoined upon you so that you might use your reason; and do not touch the substance of an orphan — except to improve it - before he comes of age.»

In this book review, John Cobb argues for an «earthist» rather than an «economist» approach to poverty by the World Bank.

Asceticism and voluntary poverty, where practiced, have been considered as a divine vocation rather than as a mandatory social practice.

Those who sound that tocsin usually accompany it with the demand that more money be devoted to poverty» the bulk of it for the expansion of the bureaucracies of the poverty industry, with just enough going to poor people to keep them in the agitated discontent to which they have become accustomed, destroying their neighborhoods rather than ours.

But the editors also maintained what today seems like a naïve psychological perspective, portraying liquor as the cause of degradation rather than emphasizing that poverty or oppression might lead to drinking.

When poverty is chosen, when it is a voluntary status, undertaken for some moral or religious end, it is often a state of joy rather than of suffering, as in the case of Thoreau at Walden, the Peace Corps worker, or the inhabitant of a rural commune.

In recent weeks, the Roman Catholic Church has gone after U.S. nuns for fighting poverty rather than fighting gay sex.

Though the curtain of secrecy is drawn over such meetings (one of the abuses that Boff had criticized in his writings), Boff emerged from the encounter smiling, believing that he had made the point that, when dealing with liberation theology, the church ought to consult people directly involved in the struggle, rather than relying solely on European theologians who, as he told reporters, «look on poverty from the outside, from a position of security, in a paternalistic way.»

I visited for two weeks last August, and rather than returning rested, in touch, and connected with the universe, I came back exhausted, stinky, dehydrated, and shaken by the widespread poverty and sickness I witnessed there.

Farmers can make the appropriate decisions the about guarantee system and the market that empower them as price makers rather than price takers, ensuring that farmers and their communities can break the poverty cycle and have a fair level of prosperity,» Leu wrote.

Or the low - income kids turn out to be somehow atypical — they go to a selective school with an entrance exam, or they're recent immigrants from Asia or Eastern Europe rather than black or Latino kids from families with long poverty histories.

Yet schools that educate large numbers of children in poverty are generally run, even more than others, on principles of behaviorism rather than self - determination.

However, noting that even their increased earnings barely took the participants» income above poverty level, the evaluators recommend that an early focus on education and training rather than on income - generation may be a more productive long - term strategy for these young men and their children (Spaulding et al, 2009).

They largely refused to acknowledge that poverty rather than school quality was the root cause of the educational problems of disadvantaged kids, for fear that saying so would merely reinforce a long - standing belief among public educators that students unlucky enough to live in poverty shouldn't be expected to achieve at high levels — and public educators shouldn't be expected to get them there.

But nonmarriage is often a result of poverty and economic insecurity rather than a cause.

To promote formula around the world claiming it will «protect» babies is the height of irresponsibility when it is well known that babies who are fed on formula rather than breastfed are more likely to become sick than breastfed babies and, in conditions of poverty, more likely to die.

But the book is more than just a collection of interesting photos; rather, author Andrea Curtis uses school food as a starting point for age - appropriate discussions of larger societal issues like poverty and the environment.

A question I raised before is what to make of the contention that increased benefits and tax credits in the past decade have successfully raised many people from just beneath the poverty line (60 % of median income) to just above it; However, these gains are said to disguise real and more entrenched increases in poverty - if the poverty line were 40 % of median income rather than 60 %, three quarters of a million more people would now be in poverty than in 1997 -LRB-?)

With British food banks serving around a million people in a year and poverty spiralling out of control, some of Britain's poorest people may feel under attack from their own government rather than a foreign power.

Dr Philp characterised the latter point as simply a time - sensitive version of Hume's view that it is under moderate scarcity that justice is important, rather than under absolute poverty or abundance.

«Yet scandalously, rather than embarking on a strategy to tackle poverty and inequality, it now appears the Government plans to change the definition of child poverty in an attempt to mask the terrible toll its policies are taking on our children and young people.

2020, which should have marked the end of child poverty in our country, will be the first time, the end of the first decade since records began when absolute levels of child poverty rose rather than fell.

To lower the poverty rate, Perez Williams said she would support affordable housing initiatives that promote homeownership rather than renting and work training programs that lead to well - paying jobs.

Want to work and get out of the poverty trap - rather than stay on benefits?

If the prices of petrol is continually being determined by the government rather than allowing the efficiency of market forces to determine prices, we will continue to grapple with a spiraling cycle of poverty and misery.

According to the organization, «In the face of rising poverty and economic inequalities across the country, the Lagos State government should be considering eliminating toll charges rather than allowing the Lekki Concession Company to get away with overcharging citizens and residents and prioritising profits over the public interests.

While we should welcome a commitment to providing fairer quantities of aid, it is meaningless unless we ensure it is of a quality that genuinely reduces poverty and inequality, rather than simply exporting failed neoliberal approaches.

Is the living wage the answer to poverty and inequality - no, not at all, because it merely tinkers round the edges of servitude, and negotiates better terms rather than dealing with the fundamental problem.

At the crux of the matter is the Conservative belief that poverty is something which is caused by decisions made by individuals rather than by government.