Sentence examples for regional poverty from inspiring English sources

A 2005 study by the Southern African Regional Poverty Network (SARPN) concluded that the idea was "fiscally unsustainable" and unrealistic.

Other disheartening facts: Around one in eight jobs in the food industry provides a wage greater than 150 percent of the regional poverty level.

But he was now certain that, before he retired, "regional poverty will be a phenomenon of the northern Great Plains".In this section Not here, surely?

A.R.C. is credited with having helped to cut regional poverty rates almost in half, double the percentage of high-school graduates, and reduce infant mortality by two-thirds.

Regional poverty dropped from 41.5%to29.6%6% from 2003 to 2009, after showing no significant improvement for more than 20 years.

A couple of years ago, Lester Thurow, a Montana-born economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, observed that when he got his doctorate in the mid-1960s, he associated regional poverty with the South.

Here, small-scale zebu theft is not a new phenomenon, but decades of regional insecurity, poverty of opportunity and a growing demand for beef have birthed a new generation of professional cattle rustlers – the malaso.

At the summit focused on regional integration, poverty reduction and drugs, the Colombian singer -- the most recent addition to President Barack Obama's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics -- was there to promote universal early childhood development and the eradication of poverty.

Take, for example, Brazil's posture towards Venezuelan-inspired Bank of the South, an initiative launched by Venezuela's Hugo Chávez in 2007 to counteract the IMF while fostering regional integration, poverty alleviation and investment.

Further, a regional composite child poverty index can be constructed to complement the child poverty rate and serve the purpose of policy input.

Political repression and corruption grew, together with regional marginalisation and poverty.