WEILAI builds primarily on the basic needs framework of poverty alleviation, and on the methodological structure of the Water Poverty Index, to provide a proxy measure of an area's poverty by assessing eight key poverty sectors, with a strong focus on the components of water-poverty.
One of the most authentic and principled debates in the anti-poverty sector today is about the practical and ethical limits to selling goods and services to the poor.
He always was trying to square the circle of private sector poverty, but Johnson's waverings have made his job immensely more difficult.
Although there is a thriving private business sector, poverty and unemployment are widespread.
Fig. 5 Distribution of poverty by economic sector in 2005 (percent).
Nonetheless, smallholder farmers who are illiterate, living on the threshold between subsistence and poverty, dominate the sector.
From 2015, development experts will continue to work alongside the Foreign Office and UK Trade and Investment but focus on sharing advice on poverty reduction, private sector projects and global partnerships in food security, climate change and disease prevention.
The eurozone, the financial sector, poverty, inequality, corporate responsibility and the rise of China: They all feature heavily in both the sessions organised by the forum, which is always eager to lob in a few inconvenient questions, and the topics of many of the events organised by banks, industry groups and corporate giants.
The analytical work conducted by the programme has underpinned the advocacy efforts of UNICEF on issues related to poverty, vulnerability, social sector policies and expenditures.
