Rural electrification, too, has been a major priority under government policies to encourage development, alleviate poverty and strengthen central authority in the country's far western provinces.
Mozambique borrowed heavily so that it could fund development, alleviate its shortage of foreign exchange, and, eventually, import basic necessities such as food; by the 1990s debt service was consuming one-fourth of annual foreign exchange earnings.
The SADC is an interstate economic and political body that aims to achieve development and economic growth, alleviate poverty, enhance the standard and quality of life of the people of southern Africa, and support the socially disadvantaged through regional integration (SADC 2010a).
Turnbull put it this way: "You have to remember that energy poverty is one of the big limits on global development in terms of achieving all of the development goals, alleviating hunger and promoting prosperity right around the world – energy is an absolute critical ingredient.
Turnbull said coal was likely to long remain the "largest single part of the global energy mix", which was "a critical ingredient in achieving development goals, alleviating hunger and promoting prosperity, particularly in developing and emerging economies".
Previous windfall profits had disappeared during military rule without benefiting national development or alleviating poverty.
Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia are widespread, so that raising iron status through iron supplementation would be highly desirable, facilitating optimal cognitive and physiologic development, and alleviating the risks associated with iron-deficiency anemia.
Moreover, fostering development would alleviate much suffering, and promoting education would generate many benefits, including improved health, faster economic growth and participation of the disenfranchised in modern society.
Most important, the World Bank granted the country 100% debt relief from July 1, an action that would promote development and alleviate poverty.
"The humanist ethic accepts an increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as a small price to pay, if worldwide industrial development can alleviate the miseries of the poorer half of humanity".
