In a petition launched last week, scientists urged the government to reverse the decision, saying it would push the country "below the threshold of scientific … poverty".
These findings can provide policymakers with a sound scientific basis for poverty reduction planning and decisions in China and other poor countries.
Over the past decade, the scientific consensus has become clear: poverty perpetuates poverty, generation after generation, by acting on the brain.
His past work has spanned energy systems, poverty alleviation, scientific computing and data management, image analysis, and pattern recognition.
This thorny and provocative first book — it's about cancer, racism, scientific ethics and crippling poverty — floods over you like a narrative dam break.
And even if behavioural change could cure a person's poverty, the scientific evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that imposing shame is ineffective at encouraging such change.
Pal received the Distinguished Alumni Award from MSU and was honored by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research in The Hague for his "untiring, devoted, and outstanding services in support of their efforts to help alleviate hunger and poverty through scientific research".
In the beginning, Jeffrey Sachs had set out on a quest to validate his scientific approach to ending poverty.
But more than any other nation, the United States of America has underwritten global security for over six decades - a time that, for all its problems, has seen walls come down, markets open, billions lifted from poverty, unparalleled scientific progress, and advancing frontiers of human liberty.
Mr. Clinton has less than 12 months left in office, but he put forward an array of programs to expand health care, education programs, scientific research and anti-poverty efforts while shoring up the big retirement systems.
So here is one model economy: German labour-market policies, Swedish pensions, French low-carbon energy, Canadian healthcare, Swiss energy efficiency, American scientific curiosity, Brazilian anti-poverty programmes, and Costa Rican tropical happiness.
