Escaping the Poverty Trap

It s a vicious circle, technically known as a poverty trap.

Africa suffers simultaneously from three challenges that trap it in poverty.

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

Fifty least developed countries (LDCs) are seemingly caught in a trap of underdevelopment, poverty and structural weaknesses.

History has shown that government action is required to help the poorest farmers escape the low yield poverty trap.

Simply put, freedom, good governance and good macroeconomic policies in themselves are not enough to escape the poverty trap.

I disagree with those who assert Ethiopia and other African nations of similar income level s are too burdened with governance, poverty, and poor investment climates to exit the poverty trap.

Germany s Hegemony Trap

The Gaza Trap

The Fed Trap

Asia s Inflation Trap

The Inequality Trap

The Security Trap

Trap Boy (ar)

'A death trap'

Europe s Middle Age Trap

It's a tourist trap.

Sami set his trap.

The Climate Policy Trap

The Debt Death Trap

The Hot Money Trap

The Millennium Project report highlighted the problems of sub Saharan Africa and the poverty trap that is, low tax returns, low saving rates and the like.

The poor are caught in a complex poverty trap in which low income leads to low consumption, which in turn results in low capacity and low productivity.

The Fed Sets Another Trap

Negotiations in a Strategic Trap

Escaping the Fossil Fuel Trap

The Middle East Turmoil Trap

During this year's summit, it was reiterated by all participants that the complexity of Africa's development has become a poverty trap that cannot be broken by Africa alone.

Sachs knows the freebies to farmers guarantee gains in the short run, but he s convinced that African villagers, once freed from the poverty trap, can thrive on their own.

The United Nations Millennium Project report entitled Investing in Development A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals1 concluded that geographical conditions made the poverty trap more likely.

Layla unknowingly wandered into a trap.

Qaddafi left behind a booby trap.

By contrast, most outsiders, asking What can we do? , emphasized geographic or cultural factors, or some purely economic poverty trap, whose effects should be countered by foreign aid and advice.

Greece, Argentina, and the Middle Income Trap

And let s not fall for this trap.

Tiger caught and killed in a trap.

We must not fall into that trap.

It looks like we fell into a trap.

Then we fell into the usual British trap.

Arthur realises he has fallen into a trap.

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 .

She wished to know if the Government had drawn up an economic strategy to emerge from the poverty trap, especially in the light of the economic downturn of the last several decades and the Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of people living in extreme poverty by 2015.

The Secretary General's report on human resources development (A 60 318) had noted that escaping the poverty trap required investment in basic infrastructure and human resources that developing countries could not undertake without international assistance.

A total of 245 million children go to work instead of to school, with some performing the most intolerable forms of labour, robbing them of any future and firmly entrenching them in a poverty trap.