Consultative Work (Vietnam) poverty reduction program in northern mountainous areas.

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.

Employment the principal route out of poverty is work

Decent work is the most effective way out of poverty.

Some contended that absolute poverty differs from relative poverty, or asked what responsibility individuals have to raise themselves out of poverty through education and work?

That effort must go hand in hand with work to tackle inequality, poverty and injustice.

To incorporate aspects of decent work into poverty reduction strategy papers.

A poverty trap is therefore at work in Haiti, one that the country cannot overcome alone.

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

Feminized poverty and women's lower socio economic status are directly connected to their work in the sex industry.

They also welcomed work on poverty reduction strategy papers (PRSPs) and other policy frameworks.

All must work together in common cause for common solutions to address challenges like climate change, poverty, and nuclear disarmament.

Productive and decent work for young people has to be addressed as a strategy in poverty reduction and sustainable development.

While it does not work directly in the area of biotechnology, UNDP promotes the application of biotechnology for poverty alleviation.

(h) Continuation of conceptual and analytical work on measuring the links between poverty and informal employment.

The most effective way for people to get out of poverty is through decent and productive work.

We can demonstrate that cooperation can work and that it can generate economic growth, thereby eradicating poverty.

Employment and the promotion of decent work should be fundamental components of poverty reduction and development strategies.

If escape from poverty is the goal, disguised unemployment is a bad thing. But if machines have already engineered the escape from poverty, then work sharing is a sensible way of spreading the work that still has to be done by human labor.

We also pledge to work with the Poverty Environment Partnership and our 1,072 government and non government members in the World Conservation Union to make conservation work more effectively for the poor.

The Secretary General's report had shown that half the people currently living in poverty were of working age and that a majority of those who did work in developing countries lived below the two dollar a day poverty threshold.

According to the study, the majority of those children work in rural areas, where poverty prevails and schools are few and far between.

Habitat programme managers work to promote mainstreaming of human settlements issues in the poverty reduction strategy papers and United Nations development assistance frameworks.

Development policies should therefore be supportive of growth, poverty reduction and the creation of decent work for all.

Reaffirming that women are key contributors to the economy and to combating poverty through both remunerated and unremunerated work at home, in the community and in the workplace, and that the empowerment of women is a critical factor in the eradication of poverty,

Moreover, we should devote greater attention to gender mainstreaming in the work of United Nations programmes and funds aimed at overcoming poverty in post conflict situations.

The poverty rate in Malawi is decreasing through the work of the government and supporting organizations, with people living under the poverty line decreasing from 54 in 1990 to 40 in 2006, and the percentage of ultra poor decreasing from 24 in 1990 to 15 in 2007.

In particular, ILO is undertaking work that pertains specifically to Goals 1 (eradication of extreme poverty and hunger) and 2 (achievement of universal primary education).

15. Underlines the important role that innovative sources of financing could play in the promotion of development, including the fight against hunger and poverty, and welcomes the ongoing work being undertaken in that regard, in particular in the context of the Action against Hunger and Poverty initiative

This work demonstrates the importance of the value added of human rights approaches to poverty reduction, and refining its implementation.

Given the work that is under way to lay the foundation for a Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, in broad public participation, the incoming Cabinet could consider a Millennium Development Goal based Poverty Reduction Strategy as the intermediate term planning document.

In Bhutan, the national poverty indicator includes gender sensitive poverty indicators.

It has also put more emphasis on ensuring that employment and decent work goals are incorporated in both the formal and informal sectors and in poverty reduction strategies.

But if machines have already engineered the escape from poverty, then work sharing is a sensible way of spreading the work that still has to be done by human labor.

As part of its poverty reduction campaign, the department has taken steps to make the work of women in the mines more visible and less constraining.

In the short term, links between trade expansion and poverty reduction work through prices, returns to factors of production, availability of public goods and food security.

In France, poverty is confused with religion in America, poverty is confused with race.

He described UNCTAD's work in favour of LDCs as instrumental in drawing the international community's attention to the challenge of reducing poverty in these countries, especially through international support measures.

Access to decent work and an education for all are the key to lifting individuals and nations from poverty to prosperity.

IUCN was committed to making biodiversity conservation work more effectively for the poor, including through its Conservation for Poverty Reduction Initiative.

The report emphasizes the urgent need for continued work towards alleviating poverty and meeting all of the agreed objectives of development embodied in the Millennium Development Goals.

UNDP places poverty eradication at the centre of its work on water supply, sanitation and human settlements, with an overall investment of over 400 million in grants.

Consider poverty in Africa.

For example, distance from work centers can lead to increasing unemployment rates and furthermore dampening poverty outcomes for the region at large.

In recent years the gender unit and the Human Development Report Office, working separately or together, have undertaken most UNDP analytical work relating to gender and poverty reduction.