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.
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.
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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He is striking at the root problem of extreme poverty in Pakistan and Afghanistan by focusing on the education of girls.
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.
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.
Miss Uranbileg believes that the roots of the problem lie with poverty.
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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.
Why, she wonders, is this juxtaposition of wealth and poverty considered a moral problem and not a practical one?
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.
Ms. GALL: I think what it shows is there's a very, very long-term problem in Afghanistan - with a lot of unemployment, a lot of poverty, a lot of latent violence.
"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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The 1990 report on poverty, for example, saw the problem almost exclusively in terms of income.
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He concedes that "both the extent of poverty and the lack of access to the essential services remain a serious problem".
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 problem is that faster growth is needed to help the 38.5% of Argentines who still live in poverty in a once-rich country.
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