Sentence examples for Economic degradation from inspiring English sources

But his African socialist philosophy of ujamaa only brought misery and economic degradation.

Others, I hope I never will: the extremes of despair that result from economic degradation; domestic abuse and humiliation.

It is absolutely true that the continuing squalor and economic degradation of about half of the Indian population really need not exist.

And London himself declared: "No other book of mine took so much of my young heart and tears as that study of the economic degradation of the poor".

More relevant and important, he said, are his generation's "founding experiences": the collapse of Communism, the economic degradation of Eastern Europe and the first Gulf War, in 1991.

Finally, it's just wrong to allow so many Americans to remain in a state of social and economic degradation without attempting to alter the conditions responsible for their suffering.

The other strategy would consist in stressing the fact that the extent to which intimidation and coercion on voters obtains in a given society may fluctuate, hence evolve at some point for the worse, in line with political or economic degradations, including good results of intimidating extreme right or left parties or a higher vulnerability due to growing unemployment rates.

Strategies of environmental movements to contain domestic and foreign corporations that are viewed as major perpetrators of rainforest devastation and the socio-economic degradation of this vast region.

In the early stages of economic growth degradation and pollution increase, but beyond some level of income per capita (which will vary for different indicators) the trend reverses, so that at high-income levels economic growth leads to environmental improvement.

Conflict contributes to disease risk by affecting the transmission potential of sleeping sickness via economic impacts, degradation of health systems and services, internal displacement of populations, regional insecurity, and reduced access for humanitarian support.

There will be economic and psychological degradation," say Papuan leaders in their letter to the Guardian.