Measures to reduce poverty

Growth creates jobs, and jobs reduce poverty.

Social Security has helped reduce poverty among the elderly.

The Committee suggested implementing effective programmes to reduce poverty.

An overarching theme of the MDGs was to reduce poverty.

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

GV How did Guinée Solidarité help reduce the impact of poverty in Guinea?

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

The debate over the ability of growth alone to reduce poverty has become heated.

Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.

Doing so is the only way to achieve greater global food security and reduce poverty.

Economic development through its ability to reduce poverty may be able to decrease suicide rates.

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

Education is an investment in the future, a means to reduce poverty and counter discrimination

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.

These programs are designed to reduce poverty by making welfare programs conditional upon the recipients actions.

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.

At the same time, much more needs to be done to help prevent future crises and reduce poverty.

This year, the international community must move decisively from pledges to action in the effort 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.

Decent employment is the surest way for the poor to escape poverty, and must therefore be a priority of any serious effort to reduce poverty on a sustained basis.

Rather than wait for a rising tide to lift all boats, policymakers should consider direct policy interventionsto reduce poverty.

If this process is allowed to take its course, it will stimulate global growth and serve to reduce poverty.

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.

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.

For a long time, rich countries have promised to reduce poverty, but have failed to match their words with adequate action.

Agribusiness development can stimulate broader economic growth, boost regional trade, and at the same time enhance food security, and reduce poverty.

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.

A sustainable economic growth rate that helps reduce poverty and inequality can be achieved only with a skilled and innovative labor force.

To help reduce its poverty, Africa must strive to increase even further its growth rates and sustain them over a long period.

Hopes for a development round in world trade opening up opportunities for developing countries to grow and reduce poverty now seem dashed.

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.