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The current cost-of-living crisis is making the situation even worse, especially for low-income families relying on welfare benefits, Eric Grosshaus, Advocacy Officer for Child Poverty and Social Inequality at Save the Children Germany, told EUobserver. (euobserver.com)
Oxfam is a global organization that fights inequality to end poverty and injustice. (oxfamamerica.org)
The profile of global poverty has changed dramatically over the past decade, and around three-quarters of the poor now live in middle income countries, making inequality a major issue. (bloomsbury.com)
Featuring contributions from Latin America, Africa and Asia, this much-needed collection answers some of the key questions arising as development policy confronts the challenges of poverty and inequality on the global, national and local scale in both urban and rural contexts. (bloomsbury.com)
Providing poverty researchers and practitioners with valuable new tools to address new forms of poverty in the right way, Poverty and Inequality in Middle Income Countries shows how a radical switch from aid to redistribution-based social policies is needed to combat new forms of global poverty. (bloomsbury.com)
This volume is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the causes of, and solutions to, poverty and inequality in the global South. (bloomsbury.com)
Many countries face elevated debt vulnerabilities and persistent food and energy insecurity, which increases inequality. (un.org)
The report titled 'Inequality in Nigeria - Exploring the drivers,' said despite the current economic recession in the country, ''a small group of elites enjoys ever-growing wealth,'' whiles ''more than half of the Nigerian population still grapples with extreme poverty. (africanews.com)
Climate change, poverty, and inequality are the defining issues of our age. (worldbank.org)
This severe poverty is mainly caused by economic inequality, government corruption and health problems. (wikipedia.org)
Kenya is a lower middle income country with inequality in wealth distribution, poverty level and human rights aspects. (wikipedia.org)
Distribution of wealth continues to be a challenge to Kenya, because income inequality is a factor leading to social conflicts, violence, and crime, which aggravates social instability and poverty issues. (wikipedia.org)
Social security is a key tool for governments to reduce inequality and protect people from experiencing poverty, hunger, or homelessness," said Lena Simet , senior researcher on poverty and inequality at Human Rights Watch. (hrw.org)
They also explain the basics of universal social security, how it can reduce and prevent poverty and inequality and protect human rights, including in times of crisis, and how governments can overcome impediments to providing it. (hrw.org)
To explain the persistence of poverty across the Global South, two factors have become increasingly prominent: economic inequality and colonial legacies. (lu.se)
Tanzania emerged from colonial rule as a country with high economic inequality and low living standards. (lu.se)
Since then, it has managed to overcome the legacy of high inequality but struggled to lift most Tanzanians out of poverty. (lu.se)
The analysis of the post-colonial period is based on a wide range of existing datasets on income inequality and living standards and uses triangulation methods to analyse the interrelationships between growth, inequality, and poverty as well as the many competing narratives concerning Tanzania's economic development since independence. (lu.se)
While the inequality-growth relationship does not show a systematic pattern, economic growth was found to be a prerequisite for poverty reduction. (lu.se)
Third, looking at growth, inequality, and poverty in Tanzania over the span of a century, economic development was found to be slow and often arduous, but attempts to fast track this process were risky and often reversed the hard-won gains made during previous periods of development. (lu.se)

Although many studies point to the significant influence of collective bargaining (CB) institutions on earnings inequalities, evidence on how these institutions shape poverty rates across developed economies remains surprisingly scarce. (repec.org)

European Union's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said she was 'extremely satisfied' at the end of her recent visit to Burma and hopes the EU will be able to contribute to poverty alleviation in the country. (dvb.no)
We look at how poverty is created and maintained, highlight the experiences of marginalized communities, the injustices of austerity and critique saviour-centric means of poverty alleviation. (newint.org)
Hriday Ram Thani, Minister for Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation, told IPS that with this new identity card, the government will be able to implement more concentrated programs. (ipsnews.net)
For example, the Poverty Alleviation Constituency Development Program run by the Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development has a budget of Rs one billion (9.29 million dollars), and the 9,290,000.00 USD 9,290,000.00 USDPoverty Alleviation Fund under the Prime Minister's office has a Rs 3.82 billion (2.6 million) budget for this year. (ipsnews.net)
He added that there is a need to establish a high-level poverty alleviation board under the chairmanship of the prime minister and the Poverty Alleviation Ministry should be the focal ministry that links all the projects under various ministries. (ipsnews.net)

The president has the ambition to reduce poverty in the line with the Millennium Development Goals in the next two years. (dvb.no)
The government can reduce poverty by permanently lifting social security payments above poverty levels, boosting jobs growth, investing in social housing and ensuring that childcare is available for all families who need it for the duration of the economic recovery and beyond," says Ms Phillips. (edu.au)
While the Youth Council Program aims to provide one industry per 10 youth under the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the Rural Independent Fund run by Nepal Rastra Bank under the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock also has a similar aim to reduce poverty. (ipsnews.net)
With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and build shared prosperity in developing countries. (worldbank.org)

In 2023, 691 million people are estimated to live on less than $2.15, the international extreme poverty line. (worldbank.org)
Although Kenya's economy is the largest and most developed in eastern and Central Africa, 16.1% (2023/2024) of its population lives below the international poverty line. (wikipedia.org)

In Germany, for example, there are over 2 million children living in poverty or social exclusion. (euobserver.com)

EU target is to reduce by 2030 the number of children in poverty or social exclusion by at least 5 million. (euobserver.com)
The session aims to help multilateral institutions consistently work together to satisfy the fundamental financing needs of countries working towards the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. (un.org)
Nepal has set a target of reducing poverty to five percent by 2030, per the U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals. (ipsnews.net)
The United Nations released a key report today showing how far the world still needs to go to reach its goal of totally eradicating extreme poverty by 2030. (undispatch.com)
And it's also important to remember that "implementation" means, among other things, the total eradication of extreme poverty by 2030. (undispatch.com)

Professor Carla Treloar and Associate Professor Bruce Bradbury, UNSW Social Policy Research Centre, discuss the 2020 Poverty in Australia Overview. (edu.au)
The Poverty in Australia 2020: Part 2 report compares the impact of poverty on different people in the community, broken down by age, family type income source, and labour market and housing status. (edu.au)
15 October 2020 - 11 research projects have been awarded grants following a call for applications that aims to support the generation of evidence from local research for the prevention and control of tropical diseases in the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region. (who.int)

This is the twenty-third volume of the publication on Indicators on Gender, Poverty, the Environment and Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in African Countries by the Statistics Department of the African Development Bank Group. (polity.org.za)
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. (lu.se)

But the government's ambitious plans to alleviate poverty face the challenge of weak programming, planning and coordination between various line ministries to successfully implement the proposed programs. (ipsnews.net)
Nepal already has 44 programs to alleviate poverty run by various ministries. (ipsnews.net)
However, due to ineffective implementation, it failed to alleviate poverty radically. (wikipedia.org)

Our results show that countries with a more centralized CB system, a more extended bargaining coverage rate and/or a higher trade union density display significantly lower poverty rates. (repec.org)
Next, the contributions are used in a regression analysis, which indicates that poverty reduction is significantly related to structural change and productivity growth in manufacturing. (unu.edu)
Finally, civil liberties that encompass various types of important economic freedom such as property rights, rule of law, etc., also contribute significantly to poverty reduction. (eastwestcenter.org)
However, in a vast country like India, poverty levels vary significantly across the different states. (unu.edu)
An important policy implication of our results is that states with extremely high levels of poverty would have reduced poverty significantly by raising their mean income levels to the national mean income, instead of changing their distribution of income to match the national income distribution. (unu.edu)
According to the information from OPHI Country Briefing 2017, poor people in Kenya are significantly deprived in the living standard dimension, especially of cooking fuel, electricity and sanitation indicators. (wikipedia.org)
Of course, social determinants such as poverty, unstable housing, and exposure to adversity can significantly increase risk. (medscape.com)

The situation is particularly critical in countries such as Romania, Spain and Italy, but no member state is free from child poverty. (euobserver.com)
For Save the Children's CEO in Spain, Andrés Conde, the fact that the bloc's fourth-largest economy has child poverty rates similar to those of smaller economies such as Bulgaria and Romania reflects a persistent "lack of public and political attention" to the problem of child poverty. (euobserver.com)
Choosing between heating and food should not be a reality for these families, said S&D MEP Brando Benifei at the launch of Save the Children's report 'Guaranteeing children's future', which has assessed the state of child poverty in the different member states in the aftermath of the pandemic and the crisis resulting from the war in Ukraine. (euobserver.com)
In addition, the European Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs, Nicholas Schmit, recalled that child poverty has a cost for the economies of the 27 Member States. (euobserver.com)
The report identified three other objectives to end child poverty in the EU: more investment, target specific groups directly in terms of compensation and support (such as migrants, and kids with disabilities), and make sure that children are listened to. (euobserver.com)
CASE was commissioned by the Itla Children's Foundation in Finland to conduct a review of published international evidence on policies and programmes designed to reduce child poverty. (lse.ac.uk)
This review, by Irene Bucelli and Abigail McKnight set out to explore the effectiveness and relevance of child poverty solutions adopted in other countries. (lse.ac.uk)
A new book, Children of Austerity: Impact of the Great Recession on child poverty in rich countries , published by the UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, provides a detailed account of the effects of the crisis on children in high income countries. (ei-ie.org)
Material vulnerability of households with children increased and child poverty peaked in most of the member states. (ei-ie.org)

According to an analysis of Census Bureau data by Stateline, a division of the Pew Charitable Trusts, poverty increased in 30% of all U.S. counties between 2016 and 2018. (brookings.edu)
But, based on the National Poverty Line (NPL) currently used in Sri Lanka, only 4.1% were in poverty in 2016. (lankabusinessonline.com)
Based on it (USD 1.90 a day), only 0.89% of Sri Lanka's population were in extreme poverty in 2016. (lankabusinessonline.com)
For international comparisons, Sri Lanka used USD 3.20 a day measure (until the country was elevated to UMIC status), under which 10.13% of the population were in poverty in 2016. (lankabusinessonline.com)
According to the group's calculations, to lift all Nigerians living below the extreme poverty line, the amount of money needed will be about $24bn, ''This amount of money is just lower than the total wealth owned overall by the five richest Nigerians in 2016, which was equal to $29.9 billion. (africanews.com)
In the least developed countries, nearly 38 per cent of workers in 2016 were living below the poverty line. (undispatch.com)

Based on the WB's Global Poverty Line (GPL) for UMICs - USD 5.50 a day per person (2011 PPP or using 2011 prices) - 40.4% Sri Lanka's population are in poverty. (lankabusinessonline.com)
Raise funds, have fun and make a difference by helping us to end global poverty. (heifer.org)
That figure reflects a decrease in the global poverty rate from 28 per cent in 1999 to 11 per cent in 2013. (undispatch.com)

Make a donation to Oxfam to help families in more than 80 countries overcome poverty, hunger, and injustice. (oxfamamerica.org)
The Economic and Social Council opened the second day of its annual Financing for Development Forum with a high-level meeting of top global finance officials intent on working collaboratively to help debt-burdened developing countries overcome poverty, climate risks and other challenges to their sustainable development. (un.org)

In this central Himalayan country, 25.2 percent of the population now lives below the national poverty line. (ipsnews.net)

Here is a rarely publicized fact about our booming economy: Despite stock market highs and low unemployment, poverty in the U.S. is pervasive. (brookings.edu)
The document outlines the current situation in the region, as despite robust economic growth in the V4 countries, unemployment is still much higher than in Western Europe. (europeum.org)
People who were unemployed were at greatest risk of poverty, with two-thirds of affected households living below the poverty line, highlighting the gross inadequacy of the $40 a day unemployment payment pre-COVID. (edu.au)
Jean Fabre says that poverty breeds other problems - unemployment, public health crises, increased migration and financial instability. (swissinfo.ch)

The publication provides information on the broad development trends relating to gender, poverty, environmental issues and the SDGs in the 54 African countries. (polity.org.za)
Part I highlights the progress being made by African countries towards the 17 SDGs. (polity.org.za)
Another way is through a process called the "voluntary national review" in which countries agree to let other governments and civil society to review and critique their country's progress toward the SDGs in an open forum. (undispatch.com)
Countries, after all, want to demonstrate national progress on the SDGs to their peers at the United Nations. (undispatch.com)

From toddlerhood to young adulthood, our child sponsorship program equips kids with crucial life and job skills to break the cycle of poverty. (children.org)
In Wade's hometown, there are few jobs available for those wanting to break the cycle of poverty. (fee.org)

For example, the threshold for relative poverty could be set at 40%, 50%, or 60% of the Median Household Incomes. (lankabusinessonline.com)
Lived in a poverty area (census tract where ≥20% of residents had household incomes below the U.S. poverty level). (cdc.gov)

The GPL of USD 1.90 a day is the poverty line used to estimate extreme poverty and represents the typical condition of the world's poorest countries. (lankabusinessonline.com)
Nigeria's extreme poverty line is currently pegged at $1.90. (africanews.com)
In 2013, an estimated 767 million people lived below the international poverty line of $1.90 a day - down from 1.7 billion people in 1999. (undispatch.com)

It finds that smoking is more common among poor men (variously defined by income, education, occupation, or social class) than rich men in nearly all countries. (who.int)
In high-income countries, the social gradients of smoking are clearly established for men: smoking has been widespread for several decades, and smoking-attributable mortality can be measured reliably. (who.int)
One way to examine differences between societies in this respect is to study the extent and severity of income poverty between countries and over time. (econstor.eu)
While poverty can be thought of in many different ways, examining income poverty has a long tradition. (econstor.eu)
The excellent group of papers in this volume throw much needed light upon the politics of poverty reduction in middle-income countries. (bloomsbury.com)
Sri Lanka achieved 'Upper Middle Income Country' (UMIC) status in July 2019, as the country's Gross National Income (GNI) increased from USD 3,840 per capita in 2018 to USD 4,060 per capita in 2019. (lankabusinessonline.com)
As such, there is still a risk of slipping back to Lower Middle Income Country (LMIC) status again, if the economy does not progress at a level expected for a UMIC. (lankabusinessonline.com)
iv) most UMICs and high income countries use 'Relative Poverty' instead of 'Absolute Poverty' measures used in Sri Lanka. (lankabusinessonline.com)
Relative Poverty is a condition where household income is a certain percentage below the Median Household Income. (lankabusinessonline.com)
Child income poverty rates in Finland are low by international standards but concerns about elevated risks for some groups of children remain - in particular children of migrants, children in larger families and children in lone parent families. (lse.ac.uk)
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, households with a female main income earner and children were more than twice as likely to live in poverty as those with a male main income earner. (edu.au)
Associate Professor Bruce Bradbury at the SPRC, the report's lead researcher, says this report shows the impact that a lack of paid work and having to rely on income support has on poverty. (edu.au)
The high poverty rates among income support recipients in 2017-18 point to what will happen to a much wider section of the population if the current COVID-19 income support payments cease in September without an adequate replacement," he says. (edu.au)
As of January 2018, the single rate of Newstart [plus rent assistance] was $117 below the disposable income poverty line. (edu.au)
It's clear we must continue the action on income support, and devise solutions on housing and job creation to lift more people out of poverty. (edu.au)
Jacqueline Phillips, ACOSS Acting CEO, says this report exposes the disproportionate impact of poverty on households where women are the main income earners. (edu.au)
These households are twice as likely to live in poverty as those where men are the main income earners (19% and 10%, respectively), with the gap even higher in households with children (at 23% and 10% respectively). (edu.au)
A snapback on childcare or income support risks trapping single mothers and their children in poverty. (edu.au)
The main reasons for this are also three main drivers of poverty: access to employment, the level of public income support available to people with low or no incomes, and housing costs. (edu.au)
The government must now ensure that the pathway out of the pandemic is also a pathway out of poverty by setting a permanent income floor above the poverty line," says Ms Phillips. (edu.au)
The very high proportion of public housing tenants living in poverty reflects the disadvantage they face, the highly targeted nature of public housing and the low rates of income support payments pre-pandemic. (edu.au)
Over the last decade, India has been one of the fastest growing economies, and has experienced considerable decline in overall income poverty. (unu.edu)
Such decomposition reveals that differences in state and national poverty levels were largely explained by differences in the state and national mean income levels. (unu.edu)
Differences in the state and national distributions of income were less important in explaining spatial differences in poverty. (unu.edu)
The deterioration in the situation of children between 2007 and 2012 is even more visible when measures of absolute living standards (measured by anchored poverty rates or by material deprivation rates) rather than relative poverty rates (a manifestation of income inequalities) are examined. (ei-ie.org)
In addition, children in already high poverty risk groups (especially children living with low-educated parents, and living in households weakly attached to the labour market) were among those most affected by the crisis in terms of income poverty. (ei-ie.org)
This lack of coverage is most concentrated in low- and middle-income countries, which face significant financing gaps between their current investments and what is needed to support a basic level of social security. (hrw.org)
This year, 44 countries from every region of the world - rich, poor and middle income alike - are submitting themselves to this kind of review. (undispatch.com)
Of 214 countries categorized by the World Bank, only 36 were classified as low-income countries, 26 of which were in Africa. (cdc.gov)
Economic growth is moving some low-income countries toward middle-income status, and some of the greatest imbalances in wealth may now be within, rather than between, individual countries. (cdc.gov)
A clear correlation exists between countries' gross domestic product and their health indicators, such as mortality rates in children less than 5 years of age (highest in low-income countries) or life expectancy (highest in high-income countries). (cdc.gov)

Social Security, now apparently the target of GOP cutback efforts again, has been the main resource keeping seniors above the poverty line and properly sheltered. (peoplesworld.org)
Half of its families live below the poverty line. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
report, released today, also finds that unemployed people were at greatest risk of poverty, with two-thirds of affected households living below the poverty line. (edu.au)
Similarly, more than half of households relying on Parenting Payment were below the poverty line," Associate Professor Bradbury says. (edu.au)

For International Day of Democracy, Iris Gonzales offers snap shots of the country's corruption, poverty and drug war. (newint.org)

This is helping them move from subsistence agriculture to commercial farming, creating a path out of poverty. (one.org)

Already two thirds of the population of cities such as Calcutta and Guatemala City live below the poverty threshold, and 1.3 billion people live on less than a dollar a day. (swissinfo.ch)

In Tobacco Control in Developing Countries. (who.int)
Poverty & Equity Note 3: How well do we measure non-cognitive skills in developing countries? (worldbank.org)
UNU WIDER : Gaaitzen de Vries on industrialization in developing countries: is it related to poverty reduction? (unu.edu)
We use the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database to measure the contribution to growth of productivity improvements within sectors and structural change-the reallocation of workers across sectors-for 42 developing countries from 1990 to 2018. (unu.edu)
He is involved in researching patterns and causes of structural transformation in developing countries, and the development of the Economic Transformation Database, the successor of the GGDC 10-sector database. (unu.edu)
In doing so, it estimates the levels of absolute poverty for a panel of over forty developing countries and then utilizes fixed effects and GMM-IV estimators to derive the empirical relationships. (eastwestcenter.org)
Standard theoretical models on adverse selection and moral hazard are assessed in order to give an understanding on how microfinance institutions have been addressing the various challenges when designing credit contracts in developing countries. (uib.no)
The two topics on the agenda - external debt and support for developing countries as they aim to finance the critical steps needed to live sustainably - require urgent responses. (un.org)
Countries need to work together to ensure transparency, the multilateral trading system must be predictable, the digital divide between developed and developing countries must be closed, and the basic needs of developing countries, such as improvements in infrastructure, must be met. (un.org)
The World Bank is the biggest multilateral funder of climate investments in developing countries. (worldbank.org)
We help developing countries find solutions to the toughest global and local development challenges-from adapting to climate change to boosting food security to increasing access to energy. (worldbank.org)
Poverty, natural disasters, political problems, and war can all contribute to malnutrition and starvation, and not just in developing countries. (medlineplus.gov)
Studies showed that this isolated population represents a sizable part of developing countries' work forces. (cdc.gov)
Progress requires revision of the dichotomous view of a static world of industrialized or developing countries, rich or poor. (cdc.gov)

One of the main considerations would be whether to continue with the concept of Absolute Poverty or adopt the concept of Relative Poverty, like most other UMICs. (lankabusinessonline.com)

Relative Poverty is useful for showing the percentage of the population who have been left behind. (lankabusinessonline.com)

In focusing on domestic actors and politics, the essays in this volume help to shed light on the social drivers of poverty and available instruments for effective poverty reduction. (bloomsbury.com)

An attribution exercise suggests that structural change and agricultural productivity growth account for a substantial share of poverty reduction in developing Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and that productivity growth in manufacturing accounts for poverty reduction in developing Asia, but not in sub-Saharan Africa. (unu.edu)
vital lessons here not only for Southeast Asia, but for Africa, Eastern Europe, and anyone who cares that the effort to eradicate poverty is more than just good intentions. (kennys.ie)
In contrast, 42 per cent of people in sub-Saharan Africa continued to subsist in conditions of extreme poverty in 2013. (undispatch.com)
Surrounded by the Great Lakes on the west and bordering the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania is the fifth-most populous country in Africa. (lu.se)

The principal empirical results that emerge from this exercise indicate that important indicators of economic freedom such as openness to trade and small size of the government are robustly associated with poverty reduction. (eastwestcenter.org)
Gender, poverty and environmental indicators in African countries = Indicateurs sur le genre, la pauvreté et l' environnement sur les pays africains : 2001-2002, volume 2. (who.int)
With socioeconomic development, basic health indicators improve but so do countries' abilities to shoulder more of their own health expenditures. (cdc.gov)

Several country representatives told the round table that they had either developed or were implementing poverty reduction strategies. (who.int)
Most countries felt that health deserved a central place in poverty reduction strategies. (who.int)

According to the 2018 annual report , Senegal ranked 125 out of 162 countries. (fee.org)

UNSW and ACOSS report provides a baseline to measure the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty in Australia. (edu.au)
Early indications suggest that women have been suffering some of the worst economic impacts of the current pandemic, and effective policy action is needed to ensure this does not translate into an ongoing reduction in female employment or an increase in poverty amongst women and children. (edu.au)
I'm not sure it's correct to call a set of mental health problems a pandemic, but the reality is that many countries are ignoring or largely forgetting this crisis," Sarah Sheppard, WHO communications officer, told Univadis Spain. (medscape.com)
Some countries have already put in place expanded social protection schemes to mitigate the negative impact of the pandemic on poverty, education, nutrition and overall health. (bvsalud.org)

In this paper, we analyze the differences between poverty at the state and national level, separately for the rural and urban sector, in the year 1999-2000. (unu.edu)
Sustainable Tourism and Poverty Elimination (UNED-UK, 1999): 1. (nzdl.org)

This paper explicitly addresses the relationship between CB systems and working‐age poverty rates before and after taxes and transfers in 24 developed countries over the period 1990-2015. (repec.org)
The following information mainly focuses on trends of Kenya's poverty from 1990 to 2007. (wikipedia.org)

One in four children in the EU is at risk of poverty or social exclusion, which amounts to twenty million children under the age of eighteen without secure fundamental rights. (euobserver.com)
Director of the SPRC, Professor Carla Treloar, says this report shines a light on those groups most at risk of poverty in Australia and reveals its disproportionate impact on women and children and those who are not currently in paid work. (edu.au)

http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/reports/14/hdr2013_en_complete.pdf , United Nations Development Programme, 2013. (nationmaster.com)
The second global forum of the World Alliance of Cities Against Poverty (WACAP), is being jointly organised by the City of Geneva and the United Nations Development Programme, and brings together representatives from cities as diverse as Bangkok and Bogota, Lagos and Lisbon. (swissinfo.ch)

U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton said that a "massive chunk of the world" lives in poverty, adding he's visited Haiti and seen terrible living conditions there firsthand. (kxan.com)
Nearly one out of every three of us lives in poverty. (oxfamamerica.org)

Host an Oxfam Hunger Banquet® and change the way people in your community think about hunger and poverty. (oxfamamerica.org)
By empowering families in need with long-term solutions to hunger and poverty, Heifer has earned a place among the world's most innovative and trusted charities. (heifer.org)

5. Several obstacles to the effective implementation of health components of poverty reduction programmes were also identified. (who.int)

Labor market flexibility, which reflects an important dimension of economic freedom, does not have a significant effect on poverty on average. (eastwestcenter.org)
It is more scientific and practical to measure poverty as it reflects both incidence rate and the degree to which a population is deprived. (wikipedia.org)

This Synthesis Report (2008) reviews the role of the United Nations Country Teams (UNCTs) in Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) processes and, more broadly, in National Development Strategies (NDS). (undp.org)
The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for Serbia and its implementation complement the efforts of Serbia in the European Union integration process. (imf.org)

A decision needs to be taken on which threshold Sri Lanka should adopt and then develop a suitable methodology to measure poverty in the future. (lankabusinessonline.com)

It provides a comprehensive review of the data on smoking prevalence and consumption levels in different socio-economic groups, both within individual countries and internationally. (who.int)
Preprint submitted to Elsevier Preprint 31 December 1998) reviews issues that arise in studying economic poverty in industrialized countries and examines evidence on their ranking according to poverty and its changes over time. (econstor.eu)
This paper explores the empirical relationship between poverty and economic freedom. (eastwestcenter.org)
All these suggest that economic freedom is as much important for economic growth as for poverty reduction. (eastwestcenter.org)
Supposed there is a multitude of foreign investments in the country after removing the sanctions, and the country [hasn't] adopted economic regulations that meet international standards, there will be more of a negative impact on the local population than the positive ones. (dvb.no)
So which strategy best addresses India's, and by extension the world's, greatest moral challenge: lifting a great number of extremely poor people out of poverty?Bhagwati and Panagariya argue forcefully that only one strategy will help the poor to any significant effect: economic growth, led by markets overseen and encouraged by liberal state policies. (kennys.ie)
To better understand the role of policies in the above poverty trends, one must consider the specific aspects of the Hungarian financial and economic crisis on the one hand and a massive shift in the social policy regime that took place after the landslide victory of the conservative government in the spring of 2010. (ei-ie.org)
Moves towards workfare, conditionality, and activation policies (so important in a country that has suffered from very low economic activity rates since the beginning of the 1990s) started even prior to the massive political turn in 2010. (ei-ie.org)
And more business means more economic opportunities for the entire country. (fee.org)
Each year, the Fraser Institute , as well as other organizations like the World Bank, releases a report that ranks each country by their degree of economic freedom. (fee.org)
To some extent, improved education level and an economic boom have eased the poverty in Kenya. (wikipedia.org)
How can developing country governments and donors identify projects and destinations where local economic benefits are likely to be maximised through market access, local linkages, taxation and employment? (nzdl.org)
In the last century Swiss people became economic refugees in other countries. (swissinfo.ch)
Since the beginning of African decolonisation in the mid-twentieth century, many newly independent countries struggled to embark upon a path of sustained economic growth to raise their populations out of poverty. (lu.se)

This paper proposes an empirical framework that relates poverty reduction to production growth. (unu.edu)
This requires us to fundamentally rethink anti-poverty strategies and policies, as many aspects of the established framework for poverty reduction are no longer effective. (bloomsbury.com)

HOUSTON (AP) - A federal judge on Friday questioned whether living in poverty would be enough to qualify someone for a key immigration policy from President Joe Biden that allows a limited number of people from four countries in the Americas to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds. (kxan.com)

Their radical message has huge consequences for economists, development NGOs and anti-poverty campaigners worldwide. (kennys.ie)

The Kenyan government's efforts to address poverty have received help from international institutions as well. (wikipedia.org)

The Hungarian story begins with an apparent paradox: the poverty risk of families with children has been higher compared to the overall population since the early 1990s, despite the high spending on family benefits by any international standards, and despite a traditionally wide portfolio of family support, and the high poverty reduction effectiveness of cash benefits in the country. (ei-ie.org)

In this context, Sri Lanka cannot continue to use the current NPL to measure poverty levels in the country. (lankabusinessonline.com)

Robert Reich has been telling us for years that policymakers have the power to end-or increase-poverty. (thenation.com)
All these situations increase poverty issues in Kenya. (wikipedia.org)

This paper discusses the First Progress Report on the implementation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) in Serbia. (imf.org)

In order to address the issue, the government introduced some policies, such as National Poverty Eradication Plan and Poverty Reduction Strategy. (wikipedia.org)
The term 'elimination' is sometimes used synonymously with 'eradication,' but it refers to a single country, continent, or other limited geographic area, rather than global eradication. (cdc.gov)

Every country in the world signed onto these goals-and adopted them as their own - in 2015. (undispatch.com)
There was great fanfare at the time, but a key challenge has always been to sustain that momentum and create incentives for countries to pro-actively take measures to implement the goals. (undispatch.com)

Part II presents comparative cross-country data on gender (section 1), poverty (section 2), and the environment (section 3). (polity.org.za)
For LBGTQ+ migrants there are many reasons why they are fleeing their countries of origin, their gender identity is just one of them," said Williamson. (myfox8.com)

In 2009, an additional 20,000 people were added to the numbers of peoples living on the street across the country, an increase of 3 percent. (peoplesworld.org)
In the last six moths you've actually spent less on people from those countries," Tipton told Texas' lawyers. (kxan.com)
We believe in the power of people to end the injustice of poverty. (oxfamamerica.org)
But can anyone deny - I mean the facts are clear, that they have taken more people out of extreme poverty than any country in history… That is the fact. (twitchy.com)
China has taken more people out of extreme poverty than any other country in HISTORY. (twitchy.com)
Child sponsorship connects two people - a sponsor with a generous heart and a child living in poverty. (children.org)
While more than 112 million people were living in poverty in 2010, The richest 4 Nigerian man will take 42 years to spend all of his wealth at 1 million per day. (africanews.com)
They added that amount of money the richest Nigerian man (in this case Aliko Dangote) can earn annually from his wealth is sufficient to lift 2 million people out of poverty for one year. (africanews.com)
There is no doubt that there is so much poverty in the country, but I don't think it is fair to the people mentioned in the report because they are private businessmen, who have built their wealth through hard work. (africanews.com)
And with more employment opportunities comes the ability for more people to improve their circumstances and rise out of poverty. (fee.org)
The bill accepts the brilliant proposal that poverty is caused by the poor, and advances as a solution an end to government support for the most vulnerable people in the country. (issues2000.org)
It's easy to be daunted by the scale of the problem: in 20 years no less than a billion people in the developing world will live in poverty. (swissinfo.ch)
Sign up to receive emails from ONE and join millions of people around the world taking action to end extreme poverty and preventable disease. (one.org)
At the start of the year I made a call for every country to start vaccinating health workers and older people in the first 100 days of 2021. (bvsalud.org)
At least half of the world's population still lacks access to essential health services and out-of-pocket expenses on health drive almost 100 million people into poverty each year. (bvsalud.org)

This GPL is also used to estimate extreme poverty in other countries. (lankabusinessonline.com)
She was puzzled as to why one region of the world was so prosperous, while another was struggling with extreme poverty. (fee.org)
Do you want to stay informed about how you can help fight against extreme poverty? (one.org)
Today's health disparities are as extreme within countries as between them. (cdc.gov)

The paper draws on a set of seven country papers that were at the centre of the study - Azerbaijan, Honduras, Laos, Malawi, Mongolia, Uganda and Zambia. (undp.org)
A new report by UNSW Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) and Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS) highlights the relationship between caring roles and poverty in Australia. (edu.au)

Controlling for country and time fixed effects and a wide range of covariates, our estimates indeed suggest that the poverty‐reducing effect of CB institutions stems from the political strength of trade unions in promoting public social spending rather than from any direct effect on earnings inequalities. (repec.org)
For poverty estimates at the national level and the regional level, it would be necessary to develop a suitable methodology/criterion, as a UMIC country. (lankabusinessonline.com)

The teetering economy made the poverty issue much more severe, reflected by a 12% ascending poverty incidence rate from 2000 to 2003. (wikipedia.org)

The post's title has been updated to reflect that poverty in America is concentrating in diverse locales. (brookings.edu)
Yes, poverty is on the rise all over America , but it has especially been cruel to those that make the mountains of Appalachia their home. (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)

The wealth of Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote and four other Nigerians is enough to end poverty in Africa's most populous nation, according to a research published by the charity group, Oxfam. (africanews.com)

In our journalism, we seek to counter prevalent narratives of poverty as something that can't be changed. (newint.org)

There was a workshop on 'Sustainable Tourism and Poverty Elimination' held in October 1998 by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions and by the Department for International Development on October 13th 1998. (nzdl.org)

This chapter examines the association between poverty and tobacco use. (who.int)

Conflict and civil strife in all its forms were also identified as an obstacle to poverty reduction through health, as was the lack of appropriate strategies for countries emerging from conflict. (who.int)

Macarena Williamson, a Brazilian social science professor and researcher now in Mexico, says her research shows most LBGTQ+ migrants have faced discrimination due to their sexual leanings but the overriding reason for leaving their hometowns is the lack of job opportunities, poverty and violence. (myfox8.com)

Analyses of smoking-attributable mortality in middle age (defined as ages 35-69) in Canada, England and Wales, Poland, and the United States reveal that smoking is responsible for most of the excess mortality of poor men in these countries. (who.int)
Development - when forced onto poor countries - is a dangerous concept, argues Amit Singh . (newint.org)
Is teaching English in poor countries a misguided form of philanthropy? (newint.org)
The case, potentially one of the biggest that human rights lawyers have ever brought, could transform the lives of children in poor countries who are forced to work to survive not only in tobacco but also in other industries such as the garment trade. (theguardian.com)
In addition, poverty differs between different regions, and the percentage of MPI Poor deprivation in rural areas is higher than that in urban areas. (wikipedia.org)
As Rush Limbaugh has told us: "The poor in this country are the biggest piglets at the mother pig and her nipples. (issues2000.org)
And the most recent statistics show that there is a new poverty and the real poor are young families," Lieberherr said. (swissinfo.ch)
Results show an important agreement in attributions about the main causes of poverty in the less developed countries, although there are differences depending on the consideration of the undergraduates as "poor" or "not poor", as "conservative" or "liberal", and of thinking that the NGOs realize or do not realize a labor of great relevancy. (bvsalud.org)

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