"The sectors which benefit poor countries have not been liberalized," she said, "and those sectors are textiles -- labor-intensive textiles -- and agriculture".
Demand-driven schemes should be accompanied by measures which enhance the capacity of the poor to formulate and present project proposals, and by selection procedures which discriminate in favor of projects which benefit the poor.
There is also evidence that GMOs have already expanded our food supply, which benefitted the poor.
They are very heavily loaded with defense cuts, while containing few changes to entitlement programs or to programs which benefit the poor.
Mr. Silver argued that Democrats should be pleased with the budget deal since the cuts "are very heavily loaded with defense cuts, while containing few changes to entitlement programs or to programs which benefit the poor".
War puts strains on a society, which traditionally copes by sharing the burden, but there has been precious little burden-sharing in America after September 2001.Not only have Mr Bush's tax cuts disproportionately benefited the wealthy; now, under his proposed 2005 budget, the burden of reducing the deficit would fall on discretionary-spending programmes which benefit the poor.
And with Congressional Republicans trying to cut $4bn from the Supplemental Assistance Nutrition Program (SNAP, also known as "food stamps") which benefits the poorest Americans, the ability to pay a little more to buy vegetables and brown rice instead of frozen pizza – not to mention the time to prepare a wholesome meal – is simply out of reach for too many of us.
The group's homepage does tout a 2009 study which found that Heifer's work benefited poor rural families.
This credit, which benefits the working poor, has done more to reduce poverty than almost any other federal program.
For taxpayers seeking the earned-income credit, which benefits the working poor, the odds of an audit last year were about 1 in 47, based on the number who sought the credit in 2000, not 1 in 315.
