Another part of the answer is that it is hard to improve distribution and reduce poverty.
HelpAge said more countries needed to introduce pension schemes to ensure economic independence and reduce poverty in old age.
This is why efforts to improve the lives of women and children reinforce efforts to strengthen our economy and reduce poverty.
Board members and senior staff of Catholic Charities agencies from across the country joined us to discuss innovative partnerships to best serve communities and reduce poverty.
Thinking that we can just mandate higher wages or better working conditions as if we were waving a magic wand and thereby reduce poverty is indulging a belief in magic, not science.
But if we are to meet our targets for reducing world poverty, it is vital that sustainable growth requires them to have a firm commitment to increase social investment and to reduce poverty.
Higher and broader economic growth is certainly needed to reduce poverty and Mexico's yawning north-south divide.
It emphasizes the need to promote sustainable and innovative approaches to protect water quality to reduce poverty and secure sustainable livelihoods.
Many corporations in America do good work and good causes, but if we hope to substantially reduce poverty and suffering in our country, corporate America needs to give more and to give better.
And we should reduce poverty among elderly women, who are nearly twice as likely to be poor as other seniors -- and we should eliminate the limits on what seniors on Social Security can earn.
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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Tax transparency will of course raise the rate of taxation on the returns to capital: tax transparency will thus reduce the amount of capital flowing in and thus reduce the amount of poverty alleviated.
Before Mr Estrada was elected in 1998, his main promises had been to reduce crime and poverty.
His goal in Honduras is less to implement libertarian ideals than to reduce poverty and to speed up economic development.
"The era of easy gains where economic development would lift people out of poverty and reduce population growth is over, " says the Indian.
But he has made a commitment to liberalizing a highly protectionist Colombian economy to reduce poverty and create more opportunity for the working poor.
Supporters say the law, which took 14 years to pass, will reduce poverty and maternal mortality in a country with the highest birth rate in the region.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a set of targets intended to reduce global poverty and improve living standards by 2015.
Other countries do it slightly differently, looking rather at the result after all the benefits and redistribution is done to reduce poverty.
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.
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.
In order for a democratic centrist to win the next election, they may not only have to contend with Garcia's inability to sufficiently bring down the poverty rate and reduce corruption but with the interference of Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez.
Pricey power, fuelled by high oil prices, is already causing headaches, with MPs muttering about windfall taxes on utility firms and talismanic pledges to reduce fuel poverty (defined as living in a household that spends more than 10% of its income on heating) in tatters.
He called on greater energy efficiency and an extra effort to reduce energy poverty.
Ministers say Universal Credit will increase incentives to work, reduce in-work poverty and simplify the system.
But it is very important also to have the support of shareholders and other stakeholders in our effort to reduce poverty.
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.
Prime Minister Tony Blair has pledged to end child poverty within the next 20 years and reduce it by at least a quarter this year.
Contrary to popular belief, aid works well, provided it follows reasonable principles: It is available in sufficient amounts, is precisely targeted to reduce poverty in countries with sound policies and is administered with the full input of local decision makers.
The pros revel in India's new information-technology prowess, the unshackling of business, faster growth and the hope that it will reduce the country's appalling poverty.
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