"decrease poverty" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is typically used to indicate a reduction in the level or extent of poverty in a given area or population. Example: "The government's new policies have successfully decreased poverty rates by 20% in the past year."
The model helped decrease poverty in Brazil (pdf).
The Raise Act will increase wages, decrease poverty and save the taxpayers billions.
Emerging technologies, like nanotechnology, are often hailed as transformative technologies that will not only help the rich, but be used to decrease poverty and inequality.
And then McEnany goes on to promise that the Raise Act will "increase wages, decrease poverty and save taxpayers billions". That's promising a lot.
The Pope's reference at the U.N. to birth control, urging the world to increase the food supply and decrease poverty rather than the population, revealed his awareness that the world expects him to make a pronouncement on the subject.
Among other positions, he advocated forgiveness of all third world debt, which he said would decrease poverty and despair and thus act as a natural curb on population growth.
Can 'Social Plastic' Decrease Poverty--And Save The Planet?
The importing of American-style factory farms will supplant farmers, increasing rather than decreasing poverty.
During the past decade, Morocco has decreased poverty drastically and the slums are shrinking.
"You can still make quite substantial improvements in child survival without decreasing poverty levels," said Mickey Chopra, Unicef's director of health.
She's not alone: research has found that social integration is more important for well-being than income, and also decreases poverty.
