The phrase "decreasing poverty" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when talking about efforts to reduce poverty in a certain region or area. For example: "The government is working diligently to create policies which will decrease poverty levels in the region."
The importing of American-style factory farms will supplant farmers, increasing rather than decreasing poverty.
"You can still make quite substantial improvements in child survival without decreasing poverty levels," said Mickey Chopra, Unicef's director of health.
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.
Impact investments are an important tool for decreasing poverty in regions where unbanked individuals struggle to acquire assets.
We are interested in eliminating disease, decreasing poverty, improving education, and putting an end to child slavery.
Which bring us to the work of development organizations: We are in the business of testing innovative intervention models aimed at creating economic opportunities and decreasing poverty.
The model helped decrease poverty in Brazil (pdf).
During the past decade, Morocco has decreased poverty drastically and the slums are shrinking.
She's not alone: research has found that social integration is more important for well-being than income, and also decreases poverty.
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.
