Sentence examples for stringent poverty from inspiring English sources

Those on the right, who want less redistribution, will push for a more stringent poverty line, while those on the left, who want more, will push for a more generous one.

That might make China's definition of poverty more stringent than the World Bank's.

He claimed the electorate did not vote for a punitive approach to child poverty or stringent cuts that affect some of the most vulnerable in society.

In Victorian times a more stringent legal view of poverty as a moral failing was met with the rise of humanitarianism and a proliferation of social reformers.

In this resilience enhancing interventions land is a central factor of production and maximizing land use will catalyst poverty reduction as well as support desired adaptation, barring stringent tenure system.

3rd Choice: Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel-Prize-winning economist, chairman of Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers from 1995-97, and former chief economist of the World Bank before he was fired at Larry Summer's urging for opposing stringent austerity measures on third world countries that he believed would increase poverty.

What is lesser known is that all these years India had deliberately kept the number of hungry low by drawing a fictitious poverty line, which i think is amongst the world's most stringent.

An important implication of this is that more stringent location constraints designed with the goal of exposing the target population to lower neighborhood poverty rates could end up reducing the take-up of the program and the average poverty rate to which the treated group is exposed to (due to less take-up).

They performed interesting policy exercises to investigate whether more stringent location restrictions are successful in changing exposure to certain neighborhood characteristics, such as a low poverty rate in the neighborhood of residence.

Visa restrictions Very stringent.

But the rules issued on Friday require states to meet stringent new yardsticks if they want to expand eligibility to families whose incomes are more than two and a half times higher than the poverty line.