Sentence examples for lowering poverty from inspiring English sources

Poor countries won't sacrifice economic growth -- lowering poverty, fostering political stability -- to placate the rich world's global warming fears.

Lowering poverty means both recognizing the successes of safety net programs we now have and devising new policies that can spread the gains generated by economic growth.

As for the 600,000 internally displaced Azerbaijanis, the government — too weak, poor and embarrassed to do much to help them until a few years ago — has made progress in building better housing and dramatically lowering poverty rates.

Economic growth is a critical means for improving employment and earning opportunities and thereby lowering poverty.

Setting a Citizen's Income too low risks trapping more people in relative poverty, rather than lowering poverty rates overall.

We have lowered poverty and indigence considerably and increased employment.

Studies indicate that increased education for girls leads to lower poverty rates and better health outcomes for the whole family.

And although the economic boom that lifted Rio also lowered poverty and expanded the country's middle class, the gap between Brazil's new ultrarich and its perpetual poor is impossible not to feel.

In Asia and the Pacific, inequality has risen over the last decade despite growth rates that have lowered poverty incidence (Son, 2013).

Regular Social Security benefits lowered poverty rates among retirees by nearly 40percentt.

For example, the Earned Income Tax Credit lowered poverty by two percentage points according to the SPM, whereas deducting out-of-pocket medical expenses from family income pushed the poverty rate up 3.4 points.