In the best of circumstances, slums offer a road out of poverty for poor people around the world.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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This spurs growth, and also reduces poverty disproportionately (because the poor are especially vulnerable to higher prices).
That, estimates the authority, would lift 100, 000 Panamanians out of poverty: today 1m are poor in a population of 3.4m.
The past few years have shown how important remittances have become in alleviating poverty and spurring investment in poor countries.
The report recommended action to tackle low incomes, as well as food poverty and the link between poverty and children's poor performance at school.
But people rather talk about poverty alleviation, saving the poor people in Africa than talking about a true partnership with Africa to transform those economies.
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He found that fewer than 10% of congregations had programmes for the persistent problems of poverty: drug abuse, poor health care, domestic violence and lack of work training.
He agrees with Messrs Kharas and Rogerson that, as middle-income countries take more people out of poverty, the proportion of poor people who live in poor countries must rise.
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.
Ravitch spoke about poverty being a major driver in poor results around the country.
It could serve as a guide to those who want to help poor countries escape the poverty trap.
And while progress is being made in reducing extreme poverty, gaps between rich and poor are widening almost everywhere.
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Researchers said evidence had been skewed to put the blame for poverty at the door of the poor themselves.
But low wages may have less effect on poverty than the fact that the poor are not working full-time.
As a rule, these stories will not feature visits to vocational training schools that are educating poor people out of poverty.
One, these high marginal tax rates create "poverty traps" that keep the poor poor, and make escape to the middle class difficult.
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