Multilateral lenders have long understood the importance of debt relief to poverty reduction.

The Committee welcomes the adoption of the China Rural Communities Poverty Relief Programme (2001 2010).

Muslim, Hindu, and Jewish relief groups are active the world over in combating poverty and disease.

Global support for making poverty history shows how the issue of Third World poverty has finally struck a responsive chord. Debt relief is a good beginning.

Accordingly, he called for increases in aid, debt relief, and deepening of preferential market arrangements to decrease poverty.

Outdoor relief, as the alternative was known, was expanded as the most cost effective way to address the poverty problem.

Criteria for debt relief should be focused on the effective utilization of the resources released for poverty reduction and growth.

21. Stresses that debt relief should contribute to development objectives, including poverty reduction, and in this regard urges countries to direct those resources freed through debt relief, in particular through debt cancellation and reduction, towards these objectives

Since 1999, the poverty reduction strategy papers have become the overall framework for lending, debt relief and development cooperation in low income countries.

The Chernobyl Forum findings should have brought relief, for they show that the specter haunting the region is not invincible radiation, but conquerable poverty.

The UNRWA Relief and Social Services Programme focused on the most vulnerable refugees, recognizing also the increasing burden of poverty that falls on women.

Early welfare programs in Europe included the English Poor Law of 1601, which gave parishes the responsibility for providing poverty relief assistance to the poor.

USAID and its predecessor agencies have continuously provided poverty relief in many forms, including assistance to public health and education services targeted at the poorest.

Despite national efforts, international technical assistance, ODA and debt relief were still needed to liberate resources that could be directed towards activities designed to eradicate poverty.

However, poor countries could not tackle poverty alone, but required increased aid, debt relief, capacity building support and an equitable multilateral trading system to spur growth.

Scenarios for future development show that the desertified area is likely to increase, and the relief of pressures on drylands is strongly correlated with poverty reduction.

Relief

The same often counts for poverty relief in the form of food aid Food aid (unless while during severe drought) drives small producers in poor countries out of production.

Emergency relief

Debt relief

Islamic Relief

Disaster Relief

That's a relief.

What a relief!

(a) Relief Services

(ii) Community relief

This commitment can take the form of debt relief, innovative partnerships between regions and countries, including consultations with the private sector, and the sharing of information and best practices for poverty eradication.

The work of our two institutions in areas as diverse as poverty reduction strategies, debt relief, and the unheralded joint program to analyze financial sectors in our member countries strengthened the global economy.

Reflecting on the G8's recent decision to cancel the multilateral debt of several poor countries, he recalled UNCTAD's pioneering role in advocating debt relief as an essential condition for overcoming the poverty trap .

In recent years, the central government has increased its spending on rural compulsory education and poverty relief, and local governments have changed regulations to increase the minimum wage by 20 30 in all 30 provinces.

We therefore urge the General Assembly to support debt relief for middle income countries whose economies have been devastated by natural catastrophes such as the tsunami and countries with high levels of poverty and debt.

Transition from relief to development

How Effective is Disaster Relief?

Greece needs more debt relief.

Humanitarian and Disaster Relief Assistance

Debt sustainability and debt relief

Relief and social services programme

Palestinian Medical Relief Society, Gaza

Palestinian Medical Relief Society, Ramallah

Transition from relief to development

Moreover, as Elie Hassenfeld has argued on GiveWell.net, there are good grounds for thinking that disaster relief is less cost effective than aid aimed at saving the lives of those who are risk from extreme poverty.

This is because poverty also includes factors that need to be dealt with in universal terms, since it has to do not only with aspects such as debt relief, but also with the liberalization of trade.

Similarly, in its report, the Commission for Africa considered that criteria for relief should be similar to those applied for aid and thus focus on the utilization of the resources released for poverty reduction and growth.

The Threat of Greek Debt Relief

D. Transition from relief to development