Contrary to images of "going back to the Stone Age, " this form of energy efficiency actually increases the levels of illumination (and thus literacy), while trimming greenhouse gas emissions, indoor air pollution and energy bills that mire the poor in poverty.
In late 2010, increasing inflation, driven by higher and volatile food prices, posed an increasing challenge to economic policymakers and threatened to push millions of the near-poor below the poverty line.
It could serve as a guide to those who want to help poor countries escape the poverty trap.
In the best of circumstances, slums offer a road out of poverty for poor people around the world.
As a rule, these stories will not feature visits to vocational training schools that are educating poor people out of poverty.
What sets YES apart from other well-intentioned programs is the attention that goes into helping these students overcome poverty and poor schooling.
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The main explanation you offer is the low quality of education, but you overlook the relationship between child poverty and poor literacy.
Not surprisingly, nearly all diarrhea-related deaths occur in the developing world, and are especially prevalent in areas with endemic poverty and poor nutrition.
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These obstacles arise from the long-standing and ongoing conflicts, endemic poverty, poor funding of the education sector and (often ultra-conservative) cultural norms and practices.
While life in Braunstone isn't perfect - community spirit doesn't solve everything and poverty and poor housing can't just be wished away, the transformation is marked.
Despite its status as a protected national park, sustainable management of the Juniper ecosystem remains threatened by the population intrusion, poverty, poor governance and the dependence of local communities on forest for goods and services.
Since the launch of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates has become a leading figure on the international development stage, seeking innovative solutions to extreme poverty and poor health in developing countries.
However Labour MP Anne Begg, who sits on the Work and Pensions Select Committee at Westminster, said the government's pension credit system was addressing the issue and "lifting poor pensions out of poverty".
The bank's economists reckon that the crisis could push 53m more people into extreme poverty in poor countries, but some of those countries feel the bank itself could help more and will make that point loudly this weekend.
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For example, Rebecca Onie was a college sophomore when she realized the connection between poverty and poor health: low-income patients lack basic resources such as food and housing, and the lack of such resources often leads to worse health outcomes.
Even in the unlikely event that pay floors do not reduce employment at all among the poor, they will be effective at reducing poverty only if a large number of poor families contain low-wage workers.
In looking at inequality, poverty, in the US we include the cash that poor people are given to alleviate their poverty.
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So, more capital flowing into these poor countries will alleviate more poverty.
It has focused attention on our problems as well as our strengths - poor health, pockets of poverty, minority groups, alcohol and drug abuse.
Mr Eberstadt points out that while nutrition, adequate shelter and health care were big problems for the poor when America's poverty measure was devised, the picture is different today.
The poor, with more Americans in poverty today than in the more than 50 years that Census has been tracking poverty.
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Two-fifths of single mothers are poor, which triples the overall poverty rate.
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Some 20% of the intake are on free school meals, an indicator of poverty often linked with poor academic performance, and 20% do not speak English at home.
Are there people from certain countries who are more likely to be poor than people from other countries or are there other commonalities among Asian-Americans who tend to be poor, who are living in poverty?
Originally designed for the pharmaceutical industry to test the safety and effects of drugs, the authors have pioneered RCTs to test the claims that small, uncollateralized loans to the poor are a persuasive antidote to poverty.
Development economists have long surmised that some very poor people may remain trapped in poverty because even the largest investments they are able to make, whether eating a few more calories or working a bit harder on their minuscule businesses, are too small to make a big difference.
This spurs growth, and also reduces poverty disproportionately (because the poor are especially vulnerable to higher prices).
But even in quite poor countries, a different concept of poverty also seems to creep in, the authors argue.
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