With the right incentives, those projects can be scaled up to the regional and national level, promoting poverty reduction and comprehensive rural development, but is this really a departure from old practice – a genuinely "new vision" for agriculture?
Facing the decreasing effect of economic input to poverty reduction, land policy innovations could contribute to promoting poverty alleviation, particularly in China, where the defects in policy making is regarded as a major factor in rural poverty.
Yet many funds, such as Omidyar Network and Acumen Fund, have an emerging-markets focus and invest in enterprises in multiple developing countries: –Investment tends to focus on initiatives that promote poverty alleviation.
In the past, H&M has been accused of promoting poverty pay, unsafe working environments and malnutrition.
Tropical infections thrive in the setting of poverty and they promote poverty.
NTDs, however, are much less well known than these diseases and frequently display high rates of illness but few deaths, promote poverty, and create profound social stigma.
28 Based on studies demonstrating an overlap between conflict and tropical infections, I became interested in asking whether the equation might flow the other way, in other words whether the community destabilizing effects of the NTDs outlined in Table 3 might also actually promote conflict just as they promote poverty.
We have been promoting [anti-poverty] but when you do a concert sometimes they forget about their emotions: that's the power of music and sport - they are the two things that can do that.
Of the 33 founder member countries of the Organisation of African Unity, now the African Union, who Annan credits with "the vision... to promote a poverty-busting development agenda", 16 are among the least developed countries on the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP Human Development Indexx.
The other news of the day that's attracting the attention of the political world also relates to fund-raising, and it involves the Clinton Foundation, which Bill Clinton set up in 2001 to promote anti-poverty programs and other philanthropic projects around the world.
