Sentence examples for progress poverty from inspiring English sources

There is some progress; poverty is being removed but not eradicated.

But Johnson believed the law would help, "five million children of poor families overcome their greatest barrier to progress: poverty".

Despite progress, poverty remains high, particularly in rural areas and children are more greatly affected by poverty than other segments of the population.

His prediction for the rest of the century: "Prosperity spreads, technology progresses, poverty declines, disease retreats, fecundity falls, happiness increases, violence atrophies, freedom grows, knowledge flourishes, the environment improves and wilderness expands".

Even Democrats on the congressional Joint Economic Committee agree that there has been “much greater progress in poverty reduction over the last two decades than the official poverty measure would indicate.”.

The national progress on poverty in 2015 provides the platform for focusing and intensifying our poverty-related efforts and initiatives going forward.

Measuring progress towards poverty eradication itself may be hard, but counting the number of countries with at least one recent poverty estimate should be quite simple.

This daring juxtaposition of progress and poverty suggested a clear agenda, shared by Brazil and the United States, of fostering dynamic economic growth and fighting poverty simultaneously.

In Latin America, these goals were reaffirmed in the Declaration of the Special Summit of the Americas, which was held in Monterrey, Mexico in 2004 [ 2]. Almost 3 years after this event, progress in poverty alleviation programs is insufficient to meet the goal of halving the proportion of people living in extreme poverty in the region by the year 2015 [ 2].

The world is making unprecedented progress against poverty.

George believed that the other side of progress was poverty.