The project was supported by the United Nations Development Programme, whose primary focus is poverty, and Swiss Re, a reinsurance giant devoted to managing global risk.
Sustainable forms of energy can also play a key role in income generation - a primary path out of poverty for the millions who do not have access to reliable grid-distributed electricity.
Poverty cannot be the primary reason, says Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston.
And in what will be a papacy guided by conservative moral standards on most issues, his past suggests that the fight against poverty will take a primary role.
Almost every country has endorsed these goals, which range from cutting child deaths by two-thirds to halving poverty malnutrition and achieving universal primary education.
Reducing poverty and solving such problems are primary goals for Mr Rakhmonov's government.
In spite of these resources, a number of our people are below the poverty line, undernourished and lack primary education itself.
Meanwhile, Mississippi scored at or near the bottom on 11 of the 22 survey measures, showing a high prevalence of obesity, high rate of childhood poverty, low high school graduation rates, limited availability of primary care physicians and many preventable hospitalizations.
In rural areas poverty leads to a lack of the basics: food, water, primary schools, simple health care.
These include cutting poverty in half, reducing child mortality by two-thirds and ensuring universal primary education.
Up to his final days, he stayed active on behalf of choice in primary and secondary schooling in the U.S. as a means of rescuing millions from poverty.
He said although the Millennium Development Goals - on relieving poverty and disease in the world's poorest nations - concentrated on advances in primary education, that would not be enough to create the skills necessary to transform economies.
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