Deciding whether America's poverty problem is getting better or worse is tough enough.
The RSP says the government has acknowledged the rural poverty problem and gave country councils slightly more cash last year.
Leaders saw the obvious: money going to pay debt, state assets sold off at bargain basement prices to their local elites and foreign multinationals, while their poverty problem persisted.
"The real reason why our obesity problem is going to get bigger in the years ahead is because our child poverty problem is going to get much bigger as a result of the government's own policies, " said the organisation's head of policy Imran Hussain.
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This means we can argue that poverty really is the fundamental problem with schools but that other factors, like teacher quality, can make the effects of poverty on educational outcomes far worse or alleviate those problems to some degree.
The charity said it had seen food poverty becoming a growing problem among the poorer communities in Hull.
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Why, she wonders, is this juxtaposition of wealth and poverty considered a moral problem and not a practical one?
The new report also highlighted the fact that rural poverty was now more dispersed than previously, something it said was reinforced by a mistaken belief that poverty was an urban problem.
Undoubtedly, there is a lot to be done to correct the problem of the marginal sectors of society in Bolivia, more so when the problem of poverty and scarcity is overwhelming.
As in these three countries, the popular sectors and the eternal problem of poverty are being used in Nicaragua to adopt intolerant attitudes towards opponents as well as to assault the division of powers and the institutions of democracy.
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Muhammad Yunus, the Grameen Bank founder who helped to establish the concept of microfinancing, has said that, if the poor, particularly women, can gain access to credit and generate their own income, that could consequently address the problem of poverty.
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This research suggests transport poverty is a more pressing problem for the poorest households.
He is striking at the root problem of extreme poverty in Pakistan and Afghanistan by focusing on the education of girls.
Miss Uranbileg believes that the roots of the problem lie with poverty.
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Lastly, there is the problem of continuing poverty, especially in the south.
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After decades of literally throwing money at the problem of global poverty, the emphasis has switched to securing property rights, buttressing the rule of law and allowing the world's workers to profit from their labor and retain its rewards.
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If inequality contributes to low growth, and low growth sustains high poverty, then an attack on poverty requires an attack on the problem of inequality.
Hunger has always been a symptom of a deeper problem, which is poverty, but in terms of actually getting people the supports they need, governors and mayors and others have the ability to do that.
The 1990 report on poverty, for example, saw the problem almost exclusively in terms of income.
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But it has not cracked the problem of inner-city poverty, nor the biggest social question of the age: how can an excluded social class find its way into the mainstream?
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However, your argument that the problem is really one of poverty rather than race or gender (as very poor white boys who receive free school meals do slightly worse than very poor black boys) is flawed.
He also examined the relationship between malaria and poverty, concluding that a severe malaria problem reduced a country's economic growth by 1.3 percentage points a year, even after other factors such as geography and governance were taken into account.
Poverty is often regarded primarily as an economic problem which can be alleviated by sending money.
The UK government set the target of halving child poverty in 2010, ahead of eradicating the problem altogether by 2020, with the Scottish government backing these goals.
But a persistent crime problem, made worse by staggering poverty, widespread unemployment and a failing school system, threatens to snuff out that recovery before it even takes root.
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"We have a huge problem with in-work child poverty and we are only going to make this significantly worse by affecting those who are at the bottom end of the income spectrum, " she told BBC Radio 4's The World at One.
"I think there is a real problem with the way we measure child poverty, " he said.
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