The clients were faced with difficult choices, poverty, lack of education and stigma.
Without economic growth, it is difficult to reduce poverty in a developing country.
In a trade that Mario and other market traders call a totobola (or lottery), it is difficult to escape poverty.
But even with education, the ability for families to change their diets is difficult because extreme poverty and remote living conditions can make obtaining fresh food difficult.
And James Parrott, deputy director and chief economist of the labor-backed Fiscal Policy Institute, said he liked the city's audit initiative, but said the mayor was shying away from tackling difficult issues, like poverty.
"The concentration of population growth in the poorest countries presents its own set of challenges, making it more difficult to eradicate poverty and inequality, to combat hunger and malnutrition, and to expand educational enrolment and health systems, all of which are crucial to the success of the new sustainable development agenda," he said.
Fourth, inequality makes it more difficult to reduce poverty via growth.
Furthermore, it is difficult to facilitate poverty alleviation and eradication when the pastoral communities themselves are economically isolated from large urban markets due to logistical and transport costs (Chadwick et al. 2008), as experienced by some households in Kgalagadi South.
Every day, I'm struck by the personal stories of women who overcame difficult circumstances -- poverty, abusive relationships, lack of education -- and turned themselves into successful women and businesswomen.
The clients on the other hand were faced with poverty, difficult choices and stigma.
