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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.
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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.
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Poverty cannot be the primary reason, says Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston.
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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.
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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.
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Reducing poverty and solving such problems are primary goals for Mr Rakhmonov's government.
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In spite of these resources, a number of our people are below the poverty line, undernourished and lack primary education itself.
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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.
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In rural areas poverty leads to a lack of the basics: food, water, primary schools, simple health care.
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These include cutting poverty in half, reducing child mortality by two-thirds and ensuring universal primary education.
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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.
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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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