Sentence examples for poverty setting from inspiring English sources

So like other neglected tropical diseases, trachoma is not only caused by poverty, it promotes poverty, setting up a vicious cycle.

Grinding poverty set against a backdrop of soaring office towers.

The report highlights that child poverty, set against the 2010 Child Poverty Act, was at a historic low in 2012-13.

Poverty set upon him to stay while he was lying beneath a burned-out jalopy.

Thus, many people live with less than the World Bank global reference lines for poverty set at 1 USD and 2 USD per day in 1993 purchasing power parity [ 3].

For those who survived the Amiras massacre, a crushing poverty set in.

Resolution 19 of the 49th Directing Council of PAHO in 2009 regarding neglected diseases and other infections related to poverty set a target for eliminating human rabies transmitted by dogs by 2015.

A shopkeeper in New Delhi is doing his bit to help raise children out of poverty by setting up a makeshift school underneath a railway bridge.

SYRIZA are trying to combat poverty by setting up collective supermarkets and medical centers, but there are no funds.

Progress in the new millennium Governments, leaders, development organizations and everyday citizens have helped to effect significant gains since the adoption of the Millennium Declaration in 2000, committing nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting out a series of time-bound targets, with a deadline of 2015, known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

His key recommendation is for new ways of measuring deprivation to be introduced alongside the poverty measure set out in the Child Poverty Act, which defines a family as being in poverty if its income is less than 60% of the median household income for that year.