Measures to reduce poverty

Measures to reduce poverty

Measures to reduce poverty

To reduce extreme poverty and hunger

The Committee suggested implementing effective programmes to reduce poverty.

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

A massive programme is needed to reduce poverty in a meaningful way.

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

The presence or suspected presence of mined areas can exacerbate poverty and efforts to clear these mines can help reduce poverty.

It would continue to provide assistance for programmes and projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, facilitate adaptation to climate change and reduce poverty.

It must also crate the economic, political and social conditions required to reduce poverty.

The debt overhang severely hampered the efforts of the poorest countries to reduce poverty.

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.

The information revolution threatened to increase inequities, but it also provided tools to reduce poverty.

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.

In the past five years we have recorded some favourable results in our fight to reduce poverty.

115. The Bank s fundamental objective is to help its partner countries reduce poverty and improve living standards.

Angola has adopted its Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, aimed at improving the macroeconomic framework and structural and social policies in order to foster growth and 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.

His Government supported the integrated programme for the Sudan, which would reduce poverty and increase jobs and stability.

Noting with appreciation the international efforts to implement international drug control measures and to reduce drug related poverty,

Such programmes seek to reduce poverty directly through high labour content technologies and indirectly through productivity enhancing infrastructure.

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.

It also contributes to the public debate on poverty and health, and provides collective support to political commitments to reduce poverty and improve the health status of populations.

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.

Tourism can have key impacts in the fight to reduce poverty and in progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.

While she welcomed the great strides made in formulating strategies to eradicate absolute poverty and reduce overall poverty, she was concerned that poverty indicators continued to worsen while the gap between the rich and the poor widened.

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

Burundi has a heavy debt burden which urgently needs to be alleviated to help revive the economy and reduce poverty.

Considering the need expressed by all stakeholders to integrate basic services into national and local strategic plans to reduce poverty,

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.

42. A growing number of countries have formulated national strategies and action plans to fight poverty, in response to the World Summit for Social Development commitment to reduce overall poverty and eradicate absolute poverty through decisive national and international actions.

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.

The Committee recommends that the State party continue to strengthen its efforts to reduce poverty, especially among indigenous peoples, and to integrate economic, social and cultural rights in all its poverty alleviation programmes.