Sentence examples for poverty grading from inspiring English sources

Voucher distributors screened expectant women on a 14-item poverty grading tool measuring food security, household assets and access to health care (Porksen 2003).

The poverty grading scale measured physical household characteristics, such as the type of roofing or flooring and family assets, such as ownership of a bicycle or amount of land.

Program eligibility for the voucher and, in turn, this evaluation, was pre-determined by the Ministry of Planning using a poverty grading scale to determine if a family falls under a pre-determined poverty line.

To identify poor women who qualify, distributors use a poverty grading tool assessing eight dimensions of household assets and amenities, expenditures and income, and health service access that are unique for each county.

Women in five groups reported that program staff worked with the village chief to distribute vouchers to the homes of all families who were considered poor using the poverty grading scale mentioned earlier.

The Kenyan experience illustrates that VMA can use local knowledge in addition to the poverty grading tool may improve targeting.

It started on a misty morning when Whitmore, 19 years old, African-American, raised in poverty and a grade-school dropout, was taken by a handful of New York City detectives into the 73rd Precinct station house in East New York, Brooklyn.

Fancy dogs, promenaded by harried dog-walkers, rub shoulders with extreme poverty and constant, low-grade protests.

Just 23% of pupils entitled to free school meals (a proxy for poverty) got five decent grades, compared with a national average of 36%.

He dropped from school after 9th grade due to poverty and continued to work in his cotton field.

Only 23percentt of pupils entitled to free school meals – those living on the poverty line – got five decent grades, compared to a national average of 36percentt.