Sentence examples for overlapping disadvantages from inspiring English sources
Brazil's bold approach simultaneously tackles the overlapping disadvantages stemming from race and poverty.
The index complements traditional measures of monetary poverty and captures the multiple, overlapping disadvantages poor people can face – such as poor sanitation, malnutrition, poor quality of housing and lack of education.
Research from Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford has demonstrated that people living in poverty around the world can experience a wide range of overlapping disadvantages besides a lack of income – for example they may suffer from poor health or malnutrition, lack of clean water or electricity, poor quality of work or little schooling.
We must commit to measuring multidimensional poverty to ensure that the many overlapping disadvantages faced by the poor can be energetically and successfully tackled.
These overlapping disadvantages are seemingly much more common in the U.S. than in European countries, where government efforts to promote integration provide a clear contrast to the market-driven solutions preferred in the U.S. The Uptick in Income Segregation: Real Trend or Random Sampling Variation?
Addressing poverty related barriers to education and the inclusion of children facing complex and overlapping disadvantages requires a holistic approach to education and a genuine collaboration between ministries, organisations and agencies.
Often, the reasons that children are at a disadvantage are overlapping and cyclical.
Of the whole sample, 74.9% reported some form of health morbidity (i.e., poor physical and/or mental health) and risky substance use, and 69.7% reported overlapping health morbidity and socioeconomic disadvantage.
It's about intersectionality — the overlapping layers of privilege and disadvantage that shape-shift in fairly mundane ways.
Besides evincing advantages and disadvantages of previous methods, the NI-QEDS analyses enabled distinguishing chemical phases having strongly overlapping mechanical properties.
