Critics say they have done little either to reduce poverty or to produce useful public assets.
His goal in Honduras is less to implement libertarian ideals than to reduce poverty and to speed up economic development.
"We have to do more to increase our growth, not just to reduce poverty, but to create employment, rebuild infrastructure and to increase the purchasing power of the people, " he says.
The first minister said that to complement the UK Government's financial measures to reduce poverty among older people, The Executive had improved access to services and acted to tackle fuel poverty in particular.
In turn, greater economic equality between men and women has been shown to reduce poverty rates, boost GDP, and lead to better governance.
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Mr Hirsch said much could be done by local and central government to reduce existing poverty, but thought should also be given to averting future problems.
The government has launched a new scheme to reduce poverty from its 2009 rate of 55% to 42% by 2014 but it is unclear whether it will succeed.
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Well, if this free market stuff has been producing the desired reduction in poverty then why not do some more of it to reduce poverty further?
He said the BNP was campaigning to lower bills in an attempt to reduce fuel poverty and that, particularly in the North West, its opposition to the process of "fracking" to extract shale gas should prove popular.
Europe and the United States are saying, in effect, that now that the poor countries have decided they would like to reduce poverty as quickly as possible, they can't be allowed to, because this will inconvenience the West.
He called on greater energy efficiency and an extra effort to reduce energy poverty.
Higher and broader economic growth is certainly needed to reduce poverty and Mexico's yawning north-south divide.
The most effective way to reduce poverty: Give educational opportunities, teach employable skills, and create more jobs.
The IMF said earlier this year that growth needed to reach 8% in order to reduce poverty.
They focus on only one element in the road to reduce poverty, e.g.
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But it needs to grow by at least 7% to reduce poverty appreciably.
The immediate objective to reduce child poverty by a quarter is spelt out in one of the government's many targets.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a set of targets intended to reduce global poverty and improve living standards by 2015.
But it is very important also to have the support of shareholders and other stakeholders in our effort to reduce poverty.
It emphasizes the need to promote sustainable and innovative approaches to protect water quality to reduce poverty and secure sustainable livelihoods.
Other countries do it slightly differently, looking rather at the result after all the benefits and redistribution is done to reduce poverty.
But he has made a commitment to liberalizing a highly protectionist Colombian economy to reduce poverty and create more opportunity for the working poor.
India's coalition government is spending massively on programmes to reduce poverty.
The most damaging is that even quite large flows of aid have failed to reduce poverty and foster growth, and in many cases have been counterproductive.
This level of funding will be a disappointment to those countries that are in various stages of negotiation with MCC about potential projects to reduce poverty.
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The EITC does more to reduce poverty than any other cash assistance program, reducing the number of people in poverty by over 6 million (and 3 million kids).
"The report highlights the scale of the challenge the government faces if it is to reduce poverty significantly in the UK, " said Julia Unwin, chief executive of the Foundation.
Nowadays, India is by far the world's biggest buyer of gold and those imports are an increasing drain on an economy that is growing too slowly to reduce widespread poverty.
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