Sentence examples for Poverty reduction targets from inspiring English sources

How clear are the panel on the risks of missing redistributive opportunities and poverty reduction targets in light of lessons learned about the short-termism of the private sector from the structural adjustment programmes of past decades?

The Liberal Democrats will on Saturday create a dividing line with their Tory coalition partners when they pledge to introduce a new set of child poverty reduction targets that widen the focus beyond the traditional measure of income levels to causes.

Child poverty 'will divide UK' Jump to media player A new report claims that the government will fail to meet its child poverty reduction targets by 2020.

Sustainable energy refers to energy that is accessible, cleaner and more efficient to achieving economic development and poverty reduction targets.

Others, more concerned with distribution questions (Hanmer and Naschold 2000), disagree (White and Anderson 2000): high Gini coefficients have a substantial impact on the poverty elasticity (the reduction in poverty associated with a given amount of growth); and, given what is known about likely future growth rates, redistribution will be essential to reach poverty reduction targets.

They began by uniting the Tories and Labour around a broad goal, setting a national child poverty reduction target.

There have, of course, always been different objectives in our welfare system with different parties placing varying amounts of weight on them: social insurance or poverty reduction; targeting individuals or households.

BRAC's Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction—Targeting the Ultra Poor CFPR-TUPP) initiative used a carefully sequenced series of interventions to give destitute household the tools and opportunity to make sustainable change.

Chris Pond, chief executive of the charity, warned: "While a commitment to tackling child poverty has been expressed today, the new, higher child maintenance disregard will need to be followed by more investment if the government is to meet its 2010 child poverty reduction target.

If that trend continues, the report estimates, "the MDG poverty reduction target will be met for the world as a whole and for most regions".

Particularly notable is the modesty of the poverty reduction target (reducing by half, in the year 2015, the proportion of the world's people living on less than $1/day) when viewed against the background of expanding global affluence [ 6].