Sentence examples for slashing poverty from inspiring English sources

Decade after decade of rapid growth has transformed China into the world's second biggest economy, slashing poverty at the same time.

Reid sees that the remedy was incomplete: "Perhaps the most important missing commitment was to equity, to slashing poverty and inequality".

They are aimed at an array of issues, such as slashing poverty, hunger, diseases and gender inequality and improving access to fresh water and sanitation.

Key to achieving MDGs The statistics are too startling to ignore – not only because these women deserve better, but because their survival is the linchpin to achieving many of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), such as boosting child survival and slashing poverty (in addition to MDG5, which specifically calls for reducing the maternal mortality ratio by three quarters, by 2015).

The high-level meeting of the General Assembly is being held to take stock of the progress made so far – which include slashing poverty, combating disease, fighting hunger, protecting the environment and boosting education – and to accelerate progress to reach the Goals by their 2015 deadline.

Just when it's needed most, our lawmakers on Capitol Hill are considering slashing poverty-focused international assistance by almost half, even though these life-saving programs account for less than one percent of the federal budget.

Open markets and free trade have slashed poverty in East Asia, and a few countries in Africa have also begun to respond to this recipe of economic opening.

During his five-year presidency, Mujica, 79, revitalised Uruguay's economy, slashed poverty from almost 21%to11.5%5% and legalised abortion, making his country the first and only one in South America so far to do so.

They argue convincingly that we are on the verge of a post-scarcity world that will slash poverty and "unlock countless opportunities and new life trajectories," at least if we avoid the rapidly escalating risks to such progress.

Indeed, in the Andean provinces of Apurimac and Ayacucho poverty rates are reported to have increased by 10% since 2004.Tackling poverty and income equality was a main element of Mr García's electoral platform in 2006 he has promised to slash poverty levels to 30% by the end of his term.

So what should we make of a part of the world where governments have resolutely turned their back on that model, slashed poverty and inequality, taken back industries and resources from corporate control, massively expanded public services and democratic participation – and keep getting re-elected in fiercely contested elections?