The model helped decrease poverty in Brazil (pdf).
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.
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.
"Pepe decreased poverty, improved highways, and invested in construction," says butcher Hugo Flores while sunbathing shirtless on the boardwalk alongside his parked delivery truck in the posh neighborhood of Carrasco.
Indonesia is on a roll, enjoying increased international attention from investors, one of the world's best rates of GDP growth, a red-hot stockmarket, low inflation, decreasing poverty and unemployment figures, and a vibrant free press.
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.
Then Mr. Clinton listed his economic achievements, as unabashedly as a salesman hawking his wares: rapid growth, low inflation, low unemployment, decreased poverty, "the first back-to-back surpluses in 42 years" and, as of next month, "the longest period of economic growth in our entire history".
"One family at a time … one woman at a time we can actually, significantly decrease poverty, which is why it is important to make that distinction about investing in women in education, because it has that longevity that you actually see in society".
