Risk amplifiers include: (a) poverty and other inequalities, (b) gender-based discrimination and violence, (c) armed conflicts and political violence, (d) insufficient educational opportunities, (e) disruption of family systems, and (f) demographic shifts to an increasingly youth-dominated population.
One of the requirements of earning a designation as an Opportunity Zone is that the area includes a poverty rate of at least 20%.
Briefly, the first dimension includes a poverty indicator, an employment indicator, and an inequality indicator; the second dimension comprises 2 indicators of literacy and parental years of study; and the last dimension includes a youth and a regional violence indicator.
The problems at home, including a 30% poverty rate and unemployment unofficially at 25%, aren't curable overnight.
The Filipino people deserve the president they elected in 2010, including a declining poverty rate, rising standard of living, increasing rate of investment, and global recognition that the country can indeed be a desirable place to do business.
We examine associations of race and neighborhood poverty rate, including a race by poverty interaction term, with both outcomes.
In addition, the Bush administration is using its influence to support new loan programs by the I.M.F. and the World Bank, including an anti-poverty loan worth about $500 million from the I.M.F. and possibly a line of credit, at higher rates, of some $1 billion.
At a gathering of Congress Party and coalition officials, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh listed the government's successes, including a decline in poverty and improved agriculture production.
Less tractable problems include a 30% poverty rate; high unemployment (officially 15%, but it's estimated by the private sector to be 25%); and a population more than half of which is under 20.
