Sentence examples for structural poverty from inspiring English sources

The country remains mired in a "structural poverty trap," according to a former high-ranking Argentinian economic official.

A campaign on a structural poverty issue like this is a long-term game, and each stage requires careful planning.

The Bank's target of eliminating "extreme" poverty by 2030 does not include the poorest 3%, which it defines as being sporadic rather than structural poverty.

"The poor" have been reinvented as an underclass defined by dysfunctional behaviour and a dependency culture rather than by structural poverty and inequality.

"There's this almost structural poverty," said Gladys Carrion, a Bronx-born Puerto Rican who is executive director of Inwood House, an agency that serves pregnant teenagers.

We're living in a first-world country where policy causes toxic structural poverty – where people rob houses for food, and families are punted from their modest homes over a tax.

It's crucial to bring issues around food and health into dialogue with discussions of structural racism, poverty, and violence in this country.

In this case the armed conflict provided the direct violence towards Indigenous women that perpetuated their experiences of everyday structural violence (poverty, illiteracy, wife abuse), reinforced by the "invariant" and continuous discrimination of Indigenous women in Peru.

Unfortunately, many factors serve as barriers to care for HIV positive women, including socioeconomic and structural barriers, poverty, cultural inequities, sexual violence, physiologic differences, lack of awareness of HIV status, and the ongoing stigma of being HIV positive [ 18].

Therefore, as regards health promotion actions in primary care in Belford Roxo, the results of this study indicate that tackling issues as structural as poverty and party political coercion requires a better qualified professional, integrated into his work and supported by other instances, such as polyclinics and health departments.

Indeed, Fortner thinks that black leaders, though right to be concerned about crime, were wrong to think that exorbitant mandatory sentences — rather than better-funded rehabilitation programs and structural anti-poverty efforts — were the answer.