Measures to reduce poverty

Measures to reduce poverty

Measures to reduce poverty

The Committee suggested implementing effective programmes to reduce poverty.

Productive employment was needed to reduce poverty and promote health and education.

Efforts to reduce poverty and improve the lot of women were paying off.

It will be difficult to reduce world poverty while the wicked concentration of wealth continues.

A social involvement action plan has been developed in Estonia, which aims to reduce poverty.

We have made many commitments to end oppression, radically reduce poverty and protect our environment.

In recent years Governments have pledged to take measures within the context of strategies and programmes designed to reduce poverty and eliminate extreme poverty.

In order to reduce poverty, growth must be pro poor , which implies changes in institutions, laws, regulations and practices that create and perpetuate poverty.

Meanwhile, Haiti continues to bleed under an undemocratic and cynical rule that does nothing to reduce poverty.

Both the Millennium Declaration and the Monterrey Consensus emphasize the potential of international trade to reduce poverty.

The continent lacks the financial resources needed to generate the requisite levels of growth to reduce poverty.

Investment in employment intensive sectors, such as agriculture, was needed in order to reduce rural poverty and marginalization.

If we are serious about our commitment to reduce poverty, we must ensure coherence in our own policymaking.

By the same token, the fight against poverty, hunger, illiteracy and inequality, indeed all efforts to reduce poverty and promote socio economic development, call for an active partnership.

In order to reduce poverty and promote global prosperity for all, I urge Heads of State and Government to

These alternatives should be embedded in national strategies to reduce poverty and in national action programmes to combat desertification.

) which is a comprehensive effort to promote economic growth, increase competitiveness, expand and improve social investment and reduce poverty.

Otherwise, the combined leverage of the Goals will not help to reduce poverty and hunger as stated under Goal 1.

This law led to the national strategy to combat poverty and social exclusion, which has as its primary objective to progressively reduce poverty in Québec to the level of industrialized nations with the least amount of poverty by 2013.

That will make it possible to reduce considerably the number of the unemployed, thereby also addressing the complicated issue of poverty.

The aim of the two campaigns is to reduce urban poverty through renewed policies which emphasize equity, sustainability and social justice.

In 2002, OHCHR issued Draft Guidelines A Human Rights Approach to Poverty Reduction Strategies as a tool that would support countries in integrating human rights into national policies and strategies to reduce poverty.

Positive aspects The Committee commends the efforts of the State party to reduce poverty, particularly in rural areas and among ethnic groups.

NEEDS is a home grown, people centred medium term strategy designed to generate wealth, create employment, reduce poverty and promote value reorientation.

The Cairo population and reproductive health agenda is a means to both influence macrodemographic change and reduce poverty at the household level.

Development programmes that aim to reduce poverty in indigenous communities must include full participation of and decision making by the communities involved.

Interventions to increase agricultural productivity to reduce poverty and hunger through greater extraction of water must be balanced with water conservation measures.

The purpose of this Act is to encourage the government and all of Quebec society to plan and implement measures to combat poverty, eliminate the causes of poverty, reduce its effects on individuals and families, counter social exclusion and aim for a Québec without poverty.

He called for further action in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice and greater efforts to reduce poverty, which fuelled crime.

The creation of jobs helps to reduce the tensions that currently underpin numerous security and other social problems, including poverty, marginalization and extremism.

It was estimated that Malawi would have to grow by at least 6 per cent a year in order to reduce poverty significantly.

Investment in health is also vital for social integration public health policy can directly influence social development, combat poverty and reduce social exclusion.

We need focused social policies to address inequalities and to reduce poverty, in accordance with the commitments undertaken in the Millennium Development Goals.

Note 2 A proposal was made to add Disasters have a huge detrimental impact on efforts at all levels to reduce global poverty .

At the country level, ILO works for the inclusion of decent work in poverty reduction strategy papers and carries out decent work pilot programmes, aiming to show how decent work can reduce poverty in practice.

Such constraints can reduce the ability of those fisheries to contribute to food security and poverty alleviation (A 60 63, paras. 216 and 217).

The initiative further aimed to reduce poverty through community reconstruction, increase food production, fight environmental degradation and improve basic social services and living standards.

Because poverty and malnutrition often go together, sustained economic growth broadly shared is also necessary to reduce hunger, particularly in the least developed countries.

In that region, increases in agricultural productivity, reductions in population growth, improved governance and economic growth would together serve to reduce poverty and hunger.

Rather than wait for a rising tide to lift all boats, policymakers should consider direct policy interventionsto reduce poverty. A direct attack on poverty can yield a double dividend in reducing human misery, it could spark growth, thereby creating more political space for direct poverty reduction.

The five year action plan focuses on four major objectives improving the well being of people living in poverty preventing poverty and social exclusion by developing people's potential, encouraging society as a whole to commit to reduce poverty ensuring that actions taken are consistent and coherent.

Reference was also made to the need to improve market access for alternative development products, in order to reduce and alleviate poverty in rural areas.