Majora Carter, who set up Sustainable South Bronx to help lift the area out of poverty by creating green-collar jobs, is frustrated by this difference between the European and American industries.
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The number of hours spent daily, as well as the detrimental health effects of wood burning and indoor pollution -- such as eye and respiratory ailments -- risk contributing to the persistence of the area's poverty.
For now, the area still struggles with poverty, homelessness and hunger, and Loaves and Fishes' Baldwin wants to be there to answer the call.
Christian organisations in south Shropshire have said they are worried about rising poverty in the area.
Of course, there's still poverty in the area and a lot of all the other stuff that people associate, you know, with a metropolitan area.
Mr Martin also questioned whether the Good Friday Agreement was delivering in real terms for people living in Northern Ireland and highlighted the issue of child poverty as an area where things were getting worse instead of better.
Daniel Lurie, CEO and founder of Tipping Point, a San Francisco-based foundation working to reduce poverty in the Bay Area, says the nonprofit's user base has broadened significantly over its seven-year history.
Motivated by the extreme poverty in the war torn area, she committed to create a non-profit organization that would create sustainable change for women through job creation and worker benefits.
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Critics say Mr. Booker's achievements may have boosted the downtown area, but he has done less for neighborhoods, where poverty and violence are concentrated.
The city has been trying to clean-up the area for years, building expensive lofts and upscale restaurants and venues next to the poverty-stricken streets.
In agriculture, creating a global productivity target would help countries focus on a key but neglected area: the efficiency and output of hundreds of millions of small farmers who live in poverty.
In the area of human development and social inclusion, the UN will continue to work towards reducing poverty, improving access to basic services in areas such as health, education and social protection, and achieving a more equitable and sustainable local and regional development for improving the socio-economic conditions of all, especially vulnerable groups.
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