Sentence examples for widening poverty from inspiring English sources

Still, some wonder whether Mongolia can avoid the familiar demons of political instability, corruption and widening poverty that plague other mineral-rich developing nations.

The 37-year-old has pledged to combat widening poverty and inequality, a desire that she says stems from her childhood in rural New Zealand noticing "some children without shoes on their feet or anything to eat for lunch".

Although conditions in Western China, and in Tibet, have dramatically improved in recent years, growth has occurred at a significantly slower pace than in the East, creating fears of a widening poverty gap.

The repercussions of climate change, widening poverty gaps, natural disasters, conflicts, gender, disability and global recession on education, all require urgent and sustainable solutions that must be generated by a wide range of partners.

Rising concern about the energy supply sector has gradually increased over the last five years, exacerbated by a series of what appeared to be excessive and coordinated price rises amid mounting evidence of widening fuel poverty.

If we are at all concerned or serious about ever widening inequality, poverty rates that haven't improved for decades and falling incomes not just for low-wage workers but even for average workers then it is simply time to raise the minimum wage.

"Due to a variety of factors ranging from climate change through to the fact that inequities are widening and poverty is deepening in many settings, cholera is rearing its head again," said Dr. Chopra.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) said rising childcare and energy costs, coupled with stagnating wages and benefit cuts, widened the poverty gap.

The causes of this problem are many: poverty, widening income disparity, underinvestment in social infrastructure, lack of health insurance coverage and access to health care.

Like in South Africa, a growing urban, black middle class masks endemic and entrenched rural poverty, widening inequality and structural impediments that undermine social mobility.

The economy grew by 5percentt last year, but the gap between rich and poor appears to be widening and the poverty of the poorest appears to be growing deeper.