The phrase "address the basic problems" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the need to tackle fundamental issues or challenges in a particular context.
Example: "In our next meeting, we will focus on how to address the basic problems that have been affecting our project timeline."
Alternatives: "tackle the fundamental issues" or "resolve the core problems."
Whether there are remittances or training or schooling, these won't address the basic problems that are there.
Among the study's recommendations is a moratorium on new rail projects until elected officials and the agency address the basic problems: chronic underfinancing and diversion of capital funds.
We use this widely used model (2.1) to illustrate systematic methods for investigating global dynamics, and address the basic problems related to models with state-dependent feedback control (i.e. state-dependent impulsive effects).
The only good that could come of that would be a crisis that could be big enough to really address the basic problems in our political system.
Fairtrade does not address the basic problem, argues Tim Harford, author of "The Undercover Economist" (2005), which is that too much coffee is being produced in the first place.
"He doesn't address the basic problem for the opposition: that they have been dealt with brutally on the streets and that this was a manipulated election," said Shaul Bakhash, professor of Middle Eastern history at George Mason University.
But they do not address the basic problem the National Health Service has with patients abusing alcohol — the cheap alcohol sold increasingly in supermarkets, corner shops or online delivered direct to the doorstep.
The Pentagon recently considered and rejected the idea of a Purple Heart for post-traumatic stress disorder; the Army is planning a service-wide "stand-down," a day to train soldiers and officers about suicide prevention, but that won't address the basic problem of repeated, devastatingly long deployments.
Other proposals, say to tighten provisioning requirements, lack key details.In sum, says Eisuke Sakakibara, a professor at Keio University and former heavyweight at the finance ministry, Mr Takenaka's measures do not constitute real reform, because they fail to address the basic problem of banks' non-performing loans or their non-performing borrowers.
