Sentences with phrase «social welfare programmes»

Hard - line sections, associated particularly with Maria Corina and Leopoldo Lopez, were disappointed by Capriles» lukewarm claim in last year's election campaign that he would continue the «missions», the social welfare programmes initiated by Chávez, a startling claim given his negative attitude towards these programmes as governor of Miranda state.

Asquith's controversial social welfare programme and Lords reform, which restricted the legislative power of the House of Lords, came after the Upper House successfully blocked the «people's budget», forcing a general election.

Our Social Investment Programme is Nigeria's most ambitious social welfare programme ever.

Not exact matches

Complaints about the intrusive and demoralising welfare state have more validity, but these social programmes do much good and could not be eliminated without threatening the whole social order.

It was not political victory but total war that first installed social democracy in government with an effective economic programme of counter-cyclical demand management and welfare state expenditure.

This would only be viable if the SACP combined its party programme with the social democratic (social welfare) needs of a rural, non-socialist populace.

And Osun, despite its lean purse and the plain mischief of negative branding on the religious front, approximates most, by its developmental policies and programmes, the Awo exemplar of a welfare state, as well as how MKO's presidency could have panned out, in people - centred social democracy.

Governor of Osun state, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has on Tuesday praised the Federal Government of Nigeria for the success of two major socially impactful welfare programmes which it said would go down to ease social tension and motivate the poor.

Raufnomics, coined by Aregbesola's associates, was launched last year as a shorthand for his profitable use of strategic planning and an innovative economic model to transform the lives of the people of Osun through mass - based and people - centered programmes and projects, especially in education, health care, infrastructural development, youth employment, and social welfare.

«As such, it is imperative to commend the state government of Osun for being focused and committed to the welfare of the people of the state through his prompt provision of social protection programmes.

«We are not blind on these laudable achievement and as a matter of fact, this has been the basis of our tour to the state as this visit would further help our organisation and other participating states on the need to expand their nets in prioritising the welfare of their people through social intervention programmes.

The Bureau said apart from the huge investments in security, the government of Aregbesola had prevented crime through its numerous programmes such as youths employments, infrastructure, social welfare schemes and others.

In the State of Tamil Nadu, the State Government has established the Tamil Nadu Aravanigal (Transgender) Welfare Board (TGWB) to address the social protection needs of hijra by linking them tosocial welfare programmes with the aim of reducing vulnerability to HIV and AIDS (Godwin, 2010).

For example, last week Senator Penny Wong relentlessly pursued a line of inquiry on the cuts to Indigenous health services — revealing that despite the significantly poorer status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, services to them were being cut by over half a billion dollars with the future of a broad range of health, social welfare and education programmes still in budgetary limbo.