That poverty alleviation programmes that focus on women have the potential to make poor households resistant to health financial shocks and thus reduce the economic burden of treating illness and the risk of incurring catastrophic health expenditures due to maternal complications.
While the distribution has varied enormously from country to country, this helped Latin America avoid the worst of the financial and economic crises that gripped much of the developed world and provided extra revenue for poverty alleviation programmes that have eased the region's notorious inequality.
Whereas surgery on animals was once routinely practiced without analgesics or anesthetics, the vast majority of veterinary practitioners now accept the basic premise that veterinarians can be trained to recognize animal pain reliably, and that veterinary patients benefit from the same kinds of pain alleviation treatments that are delivered to humans.
In order to measure the loss in well-being from a flood event, we conducted a large-scale survey in July 2009 in the Quang Nam province in Central Vietnam asking 706 households to state their preferences for a flood alleviation scheme that would avoid the welfare loss from a future flood.
Over the past quarter-century, the movements to encourage better environmental protection, labour standards and animal welfare have all, to varying degrees, used guilt and guilt-alleviation products that engage people primarily as consumers rather than as citizens.
Our case definition did not require the characteristics of movement providing symptom alleviation or that the symptoms worsen at night, which are considered diagnostic criteria for RLS.
But its lack of leverage in Congress has long been Obama's achilles heel, and lawmakers from both parties now argue they should have a say in the alleviation of sanctions that were imposed by the legislature in the first place.
And with regard to the economic inequality and alleviation of poverty that weighed so heavily upon his heart, King was especially adamant: "On social and economic issues...
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