Sentence examples for major poverty from inspiring English sources

You also want to bear in mind that we used to have another major poverty program — AFDC — which was replaced with TANF, which has virtually withered away.

The World Bank not known for boosterism said in a report this year that "Africa could be on the brink of an economic take-off, much like China was 30 years ago and India 20 years ago," though its officials think major poverty reduction will require higher growth than today's a long-term average of 7% or more.There is another point of comparison with Asia: demography.

A major poverty intervention program in the country to guarantee child rights and ensure child well-being and development is ECCD.

Ultimately, these trends have been proven to constitute a major poverty trap, and are reminiscent of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank's failed structural adjustment policies [ 23, 24].

The new measure would recognize non-cash benefits, such as earned-income tax credits, food stamps and housing vouchers provided through federal and state anti-poverty programs -- making it possible to gauge the impact of our major anti-poverty programs on reducing poverty.

He hopes to lure 500 to a thousand bigwigs and their handlers to spend two days cramming, discussing, debating and plotting in four major areas: poverty, governance, climate change and religious conflicts.

Micro and small enterprise development projects can serve four major objectives: poverty reduction, empowerment of women, employment generation and enterprise development as an end in itself (FDRE 2010; UN Economic Commission for Africa 2008; Moyi 2013; Markos et al. 2015; Brenda and Gregory 2015).

He was a social revolutionary who wanted to overthrow Batista and set up a government that would address the country's major problems: poverty and inequality.

Dylan Matthews of the Washington Post calls the official rate "a horrendously flawed measure, which excludes income received from major anti-poverty programs like food stamps or the EITC.

There is also an amendment that would provide Social Security pensions to workers in the informal sector, which would be a major anti-poverty measure, given that this includes about 41percentt of the labor force.

The government has begun to use this revenue to build hospitals and schools, promote land titling and land reform, and to increase social security payments for the elderly -- a major anti-poverty initiative.