Sentence examples for reducing the poverty from inspiring English sources
Mr Gore has declared that reducing the poverty rate to below 10% is one of his ten economic goals.
Instead, an approach is required which prioritises sustained rural development and licit agriculture, thus reducing the poverty that forces farmers to grow poppies.
While Mr. Bloomberg has made reducing the poverty rate, now nearly 21 percent, a priority, administration officials acknowledged that the stagnant national economy had hurt the city.
Other goals include lowering the income tax burden on the typical family to the lowest level in 50 years, reducing the poverty level to below 10percentt, raising the number of families who own homes to more than 70percentt, reducing the gap between what men and women earn by 50percentt and creating 10 million high-technology jobs.
And realization of the goals that the vice president laid out, like reducing the poverty level to below 10percentt for the first time in history, and increasing the college graduation rate to 75percentt of high school graduates from the current level of 66percentt, depends on that continued prosperity.
The initiative has played a key role in reducing the poverty rate in Brazil by 40 percent and cutting extreme poverty — defined as families struggling to obtain enough food — by 52 percent since 2003, according to Pablo Fajnzylber, the World Bank's lead economist in Brazil.
This would promote long-term economic growth and reduce the poverty and desperation that cause terrorism.
For the most part those guys in pinstripe suits are pursuing globalization to maximize their profits, not reduce the poverty of others.
His plan says Mr. Gore would reduce the poverty rate to below 10percentt by 2004 from its current level above 12percentt.
The aim, he says, is to boost Mexico's lacklustre economic growth and productivity and reduce the poverty which still afflicts about half the population.
Anti-hunger advocates applauded the new bill, saying the $6 billion increase as well as changes to streamline the program could help reduce the poverty gap for working families and in some cases help lift them above the poverty line.
